Patents by Inventor Satoshi KOMAMINE

Satoshi KOMAMINE 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: 11972611
    Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Yurika Tanaka, Kenichi Yamada, Ryuichi Kamaga, Ai Miyata, Yu Nagata, Shintaro Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20240110803
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to extract roads that are difficult for a particular truck to travel based on a travel history of one or more trucks and generate route guidance such that roads that are easy for the particular truck to travel are given priority by avoiding at least one road among the extracted roads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
  • Publication number: 20240109512
    Abstract: A vehicle management apparatus is configured to manage a vehicle for delivery loaded with one or more packages. The vehicle management apparatus includes a controller configured to, upon detecting that the vehicle has stopped, determine, based on vehicle data indicating a status of the vehicle, whether a driver of the vehicle is making a delivery, and control a door of the vehicle to lock in a case in which it has been determined that the driver is making a delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
  • Publication number: 20240104488
    Abstract: A delivery support apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to acquire information about a vehicle used for delivery of a package, the information having been acquired on the vehicle, determine, based on the information about the vehicle, a loading/unloading location at which the package was loaded or unloaded, and generate, based on the loading/unloading location, information about a location at which packages can be loaded/unloaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
  • 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: 20240071237
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to predict a scattering range of a chemical to be sprayed onto a field by a first unmanned aircraft and control, in a case in which it is determined that the chemical will scatter near the field based on the scattering range, a three-dimensional position or a travel route of a second unmanned aircraft so that downwash of the second unmanned aircraft prevents scattering of the chemical near the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240067339
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire weather information including a wind speed on a scheduled spraying date and time at which an unmanned aircraft is to spray an agricultural chemical on a field, determine a flight altitude of the unmanned aircraft according to the wind speed, and generate a plan for spraying of the agricultural chemical by the unmanned aircraft, the plan for spraying including the determined flight altitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240068826
    Abstract: The present information processing device includes a processor configured to determine, based on information indicating vehicle behavior about a plurality of vehicles, a boarding and alighting place of a transport vehicle that transports a user among places satisfying a predetermined condition concerning behavior of the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ai MIYATA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Syouta KOMATSU
  • 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: 11906822
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a detected value of a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside one or more openings that is formed in a wall surface of a first building, each of the one or more openings using light control glass, the wall surface facing outside, and control transmittance of the light control glass based on the detected value of the sensor. A building includes one or more opening that is formed in at least a wall surface that faces outside, the opening using light control glass; a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside the one or more openings; and a control device that controls transmittance of the light control glass based on a detected value of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Matsubara, Ibuki Shimada, Keisuke Shoji, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20240053509
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which the controller predicts, based on weather data, that there will be adverse weather that could cause damage to a crop in a field, the controller is configured to present reference information and propose harvesting before the adverse weather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240035835
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: acquiring operation information that is information related to operation of a bus; and generating a running route for a first vehicle that is a light vehicle on the basis of the operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ai MIYATA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Syouta KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 11889231
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 11830488
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire action data on a plurality of users, extract, from the acquired action data, a particular action that is action data indicating a worsening of a relationship among the plurality of users, and identify a cause pattern that includes at least one piece of action data, among pieces of action data acquired before the particular action, associated with the particular action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11825242
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Publication number: 20230363303
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by an information processing device configured to decide an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The information processing method includes acquiring information about each of a plurality of farm fields and deciding an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying over a first farm field to be sprayed by the unmanned aerial vehicle based on information about a second farm field located around the first farm field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11790505
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, upon detection of an impact applied to an object, whether the impact has caused damage to the object, and when it is determined that damage has been caused, identify a cause of the damage, based on a result of observation of a surrounding environment of the object at a time that the impact was applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Oidemizu, Kazuyuki Inoue, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Yurika Tanaka, Tomokazu Maya, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20230281521
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a vacant time of a front space of a bus stop based on information about operation of a bus associated with the bus stop, and output information about the vacant time of the front space of the bus stop that is acquired, as a time when rental of the front space of the bus stop is allowed. The processor controls display content on a display apparatus placed at the bus stop, based on at least the information about the operation of the bus associated with the bus stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ai MIYATA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Syouta KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230259847
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller that manages mobile objects that deliver articles. The controller determines a mobile object to allocate for delivery while taking into consideration the possibility that maintenance on the mobile object will become necessary during delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Matsushita, Hiroe Fukui, Naoki Uenoyama, Hikaru Gotoh, Satoshi Komamine, Takanori Sasano