Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Miura

Mitsuhiro Miura 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: 11993271
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicable with a vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to store behavior information of a user in the vehicle in association with a date and time, acquire an image via an imaging unit of the vehicle when a difference between behavior information at a specific time and behavior information at a time later than the specific time is detected, an store the image in association with the date and time and the behavior information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Ryuichi Kamaga, Mitsuhiro Miura, Yasuhiro Baba, Tomokazu Maya, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20240140451
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a VP, the VP including a specific system, an ADK attachable to and removable from the VP, the ADK giving an instruction for autonomous driving, a main communication bus, a sub communication bus, a main VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the main communication bus, the main VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK, and a sub VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the sub communication bus, the sub VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK. When the VP has a malfunction, the main VCIB outputs to the ADK, information for identification that allows identification of a capability value of the specific system (S214), whereas the sub VCIB outputs the information for identification to the ADK (S214).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma SUZUKI, Mitsuhiro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240135754
    Abstract: A VCIB performs processing including obtaining various requests from systems (S100), determining whether or not there is a request on the occurrence of an abnormal condition (S102), and transmitting the obtained request to an ADS and carrying out representation control (S104) when it is determined that there is a request on the occurrence of the abnormal condition (YES in S102). The ADS performs processing including carrying out, when the ADS obtains during autonomous driving the request on the occurrence of the abnormal condition, autonomous driving in accordance with the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eisuke ANDO, Mitsuhiro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240116524
    Abstract: A VCIB performs processing including issuing a request for maintenance after a vehicle returns when the vehicle is carrying out autonomous driving, a failure occurs, and the vehicle is able to continue a service operation, stopping the service operation and outputting a back request when the vehicle is unable to continue the service operation and the vehicle is able to travel, and stopping the service operation and outputting a stop request when the vehicle is unable to continue traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eisuke ANDO, Mitsuhiro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240078483
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires information about an article to be loaded onto a vehicle, acquires a characteristic of a person who can affect the article based on the information, and executes a concurrent riding determination to determine existence of concurrent riding on the vehicle by the article and a user having the characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240070576
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores information on a package to be transported by a vehicle traveling within a site of a factory and attributes of each employee working at the factory, a controller that sets a condition on an employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package and formulates a transportation plan for the package based on the information on the package, and identifies at least one employee who has attributes satisfying the condition, from among one or more employees scheduled to ride in the vehicle transporting the package, based on the attributes of each employee and the condition on the employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package, and a communication interface that notifies a mobile terminal carried by the at least one employee of a request for loading or unloading the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240062128
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to generate an operation plan for a vehicle transporting employees in a plant. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire information regarding a work end time for each building or production line on the plant's premises, and generate the operation plan based on the information regarding the work end time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11762395
    Abstract: A server includes a controller configured to control operation of a vehicle, and a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus held by a first user. The communication interface acquires, from the terminal apparatus, a list including a vehicle designation condition designated by the first user when the first user reserves boarding of a vehicle. The controller determines a vehicle to be boarded by the first user based on the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Saori Matsumoto, Keigo Yamada, Akira Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Miura
  • Patent number: 11736669
    Abstract: An image projection device which is mounted on a vehicle or worn by a driver of the vehicle includes a control unit and a projection unit. The control unit accepts a selection for specifying a particular user, detects a current location, acquires an image showing at least a part of an appearance of the particular user, which is captured when the particular user has previously driven a particular user's vehicle at a location which is the same as or near to the current location, and projects the image onto a driver's seat of the vehicle by the projection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Ryuichi Kamaga, Mitsuhiro Miura, Yasuhiro Baba, Tomokazu Maya, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20230249648
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires a user condition that is a condition for a user to be a target to whom an object is to be kept secret. The controller determines whether a user matching the user condition is likely to take a target vehicle transporting the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230252376
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information on a scheduled time for loading an article onto a vehicle. The controller is configured to acquire a predicted number of passengers on the vehicle at the scheduled time. The controller is configured to determine whether the vehicle has space for the article at the scheduled time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Miura, Kenichi Yamada, Satoshi Komamine, Fumiyuki Kagara, Go Tanaka, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11670187
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires actual traveling information about a first vehicle that travels along a first traveling route, and generates control information for reproducing a traveling state of the first vehicle on the first traveling route, based on the acquired traveling information about the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tooru Nakanishi, Tadashi Yamada, Josuke Yamane, Mitsuhiro Miura, Tomo Sasaki, Tomoyuki Kozuka, Tae Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11577738
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin having a first room and a second room that are capable of accommodating at least one passenger, and configured to isolate one or more passengers accommodated in the first room from one or more passengers accommodated in the second room, a guidance apparatus configured to guide the at least one passenger to be accommodated in either the first room or the second room, and a control apparatus configured to control the guidance apparatus. When a user boards as the at least one passenger, the control apparatus determines which of the first room and the second room the user is to board, based on information regarding the user. The guidance apparatus is configured to guide and board the user to whichever of the first room and the second room determined by the control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Saori Matsumoto, Keigo Yamada, Akira Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Miura
  • Publication number: 20220406100
    Abstract: An information processing device that is able to communicate with a vehicle includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit executes: acquiring travel data of the vehicle via the communication unit; specifying, from the travel data, a location where the number of times the vehicle has stopped for a predetermined time or more is a predetermined number of times or more; and acquiring location-related information related to the location via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Ryuichi KAMAGA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Yasuhiro BABA, Tomokazu MAYA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220406173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit is configured to acquire, from the vehicle via the communication unit, vehicle information including at least one of open-close information of a door of the vehicle and location information of the vehicle, and determine a personality of a driver of the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Ryuichi Kamaga, Mitsuhiro Miura, Yasuhiro Baba, Tomokazu Maya, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220400237
    Abstract: An image projection device which is mounted on a vehicle or worn by a driver of the vehicle includes a control unit and a projection unit. The control unit accepts a selection for specifying a particular user, detects a current location, acquires an image showing at least a part of an appearance of the particular user, which is captured when the particular user has previously driven a particular user's vehicle at a location which is the same as or near to the current location, and projects the image onto a driver's seat of the vehicle by the projection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Ryuichi KAMAGA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Yasuhiro BABA, Tomokazu MAYA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220332326
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicable with a vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to store behavior information of a user in the vehicle in association with a date and time, acquire an image via an imaging unit of the vehicle when a difference between behavior information at a specific time and behavior information at a time later than the specific time is detected, an store the image in association with the date and time and the behavior information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Ryuichi KAMAGA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Yasuhiro BABA, Tomokazu MAYA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220156701
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire schedule information including information on schedule time that is time at which a visitor is scheduled to visit a user in a predetermined place. The control unit is configured to, when a sign that the user leaves the predetermined place before the schedule time is detected based on an action of the user in the predetermined place, provide a notification to the user or the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Izumida, Mitsuhiro Miura, Xin Jin, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220157174
    Abstract: A vehicle is allocated to a user when a first predictor is detected, the first predictor being a predictor indicating that the user is to go out from a predetermined location. At this time, a control unit of an information processing device sends, to the user, a notification for confirming whether the user needs the vehicle at the time when a second predictor is detected, the second predictor being a predictor indicating that the user is to go out from the predetermined location and being a predictor other than the first predictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Izumida, Mitsuhiro Miura, Xin Jin, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220128376
    Abstract: A controller comprising at least one processor in an information processing device obtains a travel route to a destination of a user and identifies a plurality of digital signs that exist on the travel route and guide the user to the destination. In addition, the controller in the information processing device transmits first information to a first sign included in the plurality of digital signs, the first information being information for guiding the user to a second sign, the second sign being a digital sign guiding the user to the destination subsequently to the first sign on the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuichi SAWADA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Yusuke NAKADE, Shin SAKURADA, Ai MIYATA, Satoshi KOMAMINE