Patents by Inventor Naoto Sasagawa

Naoto Sasagawa 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: 20230351823
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an accident/near miss detecting unit that detects a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles based on vehicle information acquired by each of the vehicles and including position information and date-and-time information corresponding to time when the vehicle information is acquired by the vehicles, the first vehicle being involved in a near miss or accident; a surrounding vehicle extracting unit that extracts surrounding vehicles of the vehicles and the date-and-time information corresponding to the position information, the surrounding vehicles being positioned at an area surrounding the first vehicle at time of the near miss or accident; and an object vehicle specifying unit that specifies a second vehicle of the surrounding vehicles, the second vehicle being a vehicle in which an inadequate driving operation causing the near miss or accident of the first vehicle is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige HORI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11734967
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an accident/near miss detecting unit that detects a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles based on vehicle information acquired by each of the vehicles and including position information and date-and-time information corresponding to time when the vehicle information is acquired by the vehicles, the first vehicle being involved in a near miss or accident; a surrounding vehicle extracting unit that extracts surrounding vehicles of the vehicles and the date-and-time information corresponding to the position information, the surrounding vehicles being positioned at an area surrounding the first vehicle at time of the near miss or accident; and an object vehicle specifying unit that specifies a second vehicle of the surrounding vehicles, the second vehicle being a vehicle in which an inadequate driving operation causing the near miss or accident of the first vehicle is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige Hori, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11600182
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation service system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information and positional information of a user, a selection unit configured to select a moving object to be provided to the user based on the biological information, a decision unit configured to acquire priority added to a satisfied condition of the biological information of the user and decide an order of vehicle allocation for the selected moving object according to the priority, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the selected moving object to move according to the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11553100
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of fax communication and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are described. The image processing apparatus has a user interface capable of accepting from a user, in advance of receiving by a network interface a shutdown request, a setting of whether or not to perform shutdown processing based on the received shutdown request when the image processing apparatus is in a state of being connected to a fax line and when fax communication is possible. The image processing apparatus executes, in accordance with the setting accepted in advance from the user by the user interface, the shutdown processing of the image processing apparatus based on the shutdown request received from the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11523025
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising detecting alteration of any application held in the image processing apparatus; determining, in a case where alteration has been detected, whether or not the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted based on the application in which alteration has been detected; and displaying, in a display unit and as a result of the determination, in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected, and restricting the use of the image processing apparatus, and in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus need not be restricted, display, in the display unit, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11521259
    Abstract: A server apparatus as a management apparatus in a system includes a controller configured to execute acquiring commodity-or-the-like purchase information of a user in a first mobile store from a store device of the first mobile store, selecting a commodity or a service predicted to be purchased next by the user based on commodities or services in the acquired commodity-or-the-like purchase information, and transmitting information regarding the user to a store device of a second mobile store dealing in the selected commodity or service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11486723
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a controller which executes: obtaining predetermined service information including an advertisement; obtaining predetermined user information on biological information of a user in a vehicle in which the user rides; estimating a health condition of the user based on the user information; extracting distribution information which is information, among the service information, is judged to match the user based on the user's health condition, and which is information about a medical facility according to the health condition or/and information about a predetermined store which sells goods according to the health condition; and selecting, based on position information of the vehicle, information to be actually distributed to the user from among the distribution information thus extracted, and providing the information thus selected to the user, by transmitting the selected distribution information to an on-board device of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11386438
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to: acquire a level of crowdedness of an intended store, the intended store being a store as a destination of a vehicle in which a user is riding; if the level of crowdedness of the intended store is greater than a given threshold, extract a store with a lower level of crowdedness than the intended store as a given recommended store from among other stores belonging to a same business group as the intended store; generate a suggestion advertisement, the suggestion advertisement being an advertisement for suggesting changing the destination of the vehicle from the intended store to the given recommended store; and present the suggestion advertisement to the user riding in the vehicle via a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being a terminal that moves with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11315414
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: acquiring a degree of congestion of persons that are located in a predetermined range including a plurality of vehicles which is parked at predetermined positions and is able to travel autonomously; determining a positional relationship between the plurality of vehicles based on the degree of congestion; and transmitting a movement command to a first vehicle which is a vehicle which is requested to move out of the plurality of vehicles such that the determined positional relationship is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11315148
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus extracts at least one store from a plurality of stores in accordance with an order in which degrees of safety for a target vehicle are ordered as starting from higher degrees of safety, by using information which indicates the degree of safety relevant to situations to be provided if a user visits the store and the user leaves the store by using the vehicle with respect to each of the plurality of stores belonging to a predetermined category; and provides, to the user who gets on the target vehicle, information which prompts the user to visit the at least one store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11301901
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide more appropriate advertisement information for each of a plurality of users sharing a specific space. The advertisement delivery system provides advertisement information to each user existing in a specific space shared by a plurality of users having a specific purpose. In this advertisement delivery system, an information processing device generates advertisement information for each user based on an attribute of a specific space associated with a specific purpose and an attribute of each user associated with the specific purpose. The advertisement distribution device arranged in a specific space receives advertisement information for each user from the information processing device and transmits the received advertisement information to the user terminal associated with the user to be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11269579
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring information indicating an environment surrounding a place where a plurality of movable objects is disposed, the plurality of movable objects including display units that display a picture to configure an external appearance; deciding a display content of the picture to be displayed by the display units included in the plurality of movable objects, depending on the information indicating the environment surrounding the place; and giving an instruction to cause the display units to display the picture having the decided display content, to the plurality of movable objects disposed at an area surrounding the place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11212409
    Abstract: According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, when no user operation has been performed for a set period, an information processing device is caused to transition to a sleep mode including stopping display on a display unit. However, the information processing device is controlled to not transition to the sleep mode until a slideshow currently being displayed on the display unit, ends, in a case where the slideshow has been started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11172099
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing apparatus sets whether or not a function provided in the image processing apparatus requires user authentication, and upon issuance of an instruction to activate an application, determines whether or not a function used by the application is set to require the user authentication. If it is determined that the function used by the application is set to require the user authentication, the image processing apparatus permits the application to use the function in a case that the user authentication has succeeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Sasagawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike
  • Patent number: 11140291
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores, for an application, a meta file including a setting data version and a setting data compatible version in a storage as information about the application. In a case where setting data of the application is to be imported, an application management unit of the image forming apparatus determines whether to allow import of the setting data as an import target by using a version of the setting data, a setting data version that is stored as the information about the application corresponding to the setting data as the import target, and a setting data compatible version, and determines whether to allow import of the setting data as the import target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11134173
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing apparatus sets whether or not a function provided in the image processing apparatus requires user authentication, and upon issuance of an instruction to activate an application, determines whether or not a function used by the application is set to require the user authentication. If it is determined that the function used by the application is set to require the user authentication, the image processing apparatus permits the application to use the function in a case that the user authentication has succeeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Sasagawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20210152709
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising detecting alteration of any application held in the image processing apparatus; determining, in a case where alteration has been detected, whether or not the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted based on the application in which alteration has been detected; and displaying, in a display unit and as a result of the determination, in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected, and restricting the use of the image processing apparatus, and in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus need not be restricted, display, in the display unit, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10951781
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays a screen on which a pointing tool corresponding to a function is disposed. The information processing apparatus obtains a display language of the screen and obtains a language of the pointing tool, and in a case where the display language differs from the language, displays, on the display unit, a confirmation screen for confirming with a user whether to execute the function corresponding to the pointing tool in response to an instruction given by the user via the pointing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10919349
    Abstract: A tire chain attachment determination device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires vibration information on a vibration of a vehicle detected by a vibration detection unit provided in the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines whether or not a tire chain is attached to the vehicle based on a frequency characteristic of the vibration of the vehicle using the vibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Sasagawa, Eiji Niwa
  • Publication number: 20210044716
    Abstract: According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, when no user operation has been performed for a set period, an information processing device is caused to transition to a sleep mode including stopping display on a display unit. However, the information processing device is controlled to not transition to the sleep mode until a slideshow currently being displayed on the display unit, ends, in a case where the slideshow has been started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa