Patents by Inventor Seiei HIBINO

Seiei HIBINO 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: 11816803
    Abstract: A guidance display system includes an AR display device and a server. The AR display device includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to display, on the display unit, an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object for guidance is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The server is wirelessly connected to the display device. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit, a 3D model extraction unit, and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores character information set for a theme park. The 3D model extraction unit extracts the character of the theme park set as the destination, as a virtual object for guidance. The transmission unit transmits the image data of the extracted virtual object for guidance to the display control unit of the AR display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Kazumi Serizawa, Sayaka Ishikawa, Kazuki Komoriya, Masaya Miura, Kouji Tamura, Seiei Hibino, Rina Mukai, Tomoya Inagaki, Chinli Di
  • Patent number: 11645822
    Abstract: When a theme park that is a facility configured based on a specific theme is set as a departure point, an AR display device transmits information of the theme park of the departure point to a server. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores information on a character set for the theme park of the departure point. The transmission unit transmits, to the AR display device, image data of the character set for the theme park of the departure point, with the character being set as a virtual object of the departure point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Komoriya, Kazumi Serizawa, Sayaka Ishikawa, Shunsuke Tanimori, Masaya Miura, Kouji Tamura, Seiei Hibino, Rina Mukai, Tomoya Inagaki, Chinli Di
  • Patent number: 11630445
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Takezawa, Hirotaka Todaka, Takao Kiguchi, Chieko Sawada, Yosuke Tokuda, Ayaka Kagami, Natsuki Sugiyama, Takuzo Hirano, Taichi Amakasu, Seiei Hibino, Hiroshi Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20220198763
    Abstract: A guidance display system includes an AR display device and a server. The AR display device includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to display, on the display unit, an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object for guidance is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The server is wirelessly connected to the display device. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit, a 3D model extraction unit, and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores character information set for a theme park. The 3D model extraction unit extracts the character of the theme park set as the destination, as a virtual object for guidance. The transmission unit transmits the image data of the extracted virtual object for guidance to the display control unit of the AR display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Kazumi Serizawa, Sayaka Ishikawa, Kazuki Komoriya, Masaya Miura, Kouji Tamura, Seiei Hibino, Rina Mukai, Tomoya Inagaki, Chinli Di
  • Publication number: 20220198760
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device and a remote terminal device. The display device includes an image shooting device, an image recognizer, and a display controller. The image recognizer recognizes real objects in an image shot by the image shooting device, and recognizes positions of the recognized real objects on space coordinates. The display controller superimposes a virtual object at a designated position on the space coordinates in the shot image. The image recognizer recognizes a gesture of the real object at the designated position of the virtual object in the shot image. The display controller executes image processing on the virtual object in response to the recognized gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KAZUMI SERIZAWA, Kazuki KOMORIYA, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Masaya MIURA, Kouji TAMURA, Seiei HIBINO, Rina MUKAI, Tomoya INAGAKI, Chinli DI
  • Publication number: 20220198761
    Abstract: When a theme park that is a facility configured based on a specific theme is set as a departure point, an AR display device transmits information of the theme park of the departure point to a server. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores information on a character set for the theme park of the departure point. The transmission unit transmits, to the AR display device, image data of the character set for the theme park of the departure point, with the character being set as a virtual object of the departure point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KAZUKI KOMORIYA, Kazumi Serizawa, Sayaka Ishikawa, Shunsuke Tanimori, Masaya Miura, Kouji Tamura, Seiei Hibino, Rina Mukai, Tomoya Inagaki, Chinli Di
  • Publication number: 20220198762
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device and a server. The display includes an imager, an image recognition unit that recognizes an identifier provided to a portable product and included in the image captured by the imager, a display control unit that generates an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object is superimposed on scenery of real world including the portable product in response to recognition of the identifier, a display unit that displays the augmented reality image, and a position information acquisition unit that acquires current position information. The server includes a first storage unit in which a plurality of types of image data of the virtual object is stored, and a first extraction unit that extracts, from the first storage unit, the image data of the virtual object that is provided to the display device, based on the position information of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki KOMORIYA, Kazumi SERIZAWA, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Masaya MIURA, Kouji TAMURA, Seiei HIBINO, Rina MUKAI, Tomoya INAGAKI, Chinli DI
  • Publication number: 20220198744
    Abstract: A display device includes an image recognition unit, a display control unit, a display unit, and a position information acquisition unit. The image recognition unit recognizes a person image from an image captured at a remote location. The display control unit is configured to superimpose a decoration image on the person image and generate an augmented reality image in which the person image that has been decorated is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The position information acquisition unit acquires a position of the position information acquisition unit. The server includes a decoration image storage unit and a decoration image extraction unit. In the decoration image storage unit, a plurality of kinds of the decoration images is stored. The decoration image extraction unit extracts, from the decoration image storage unit, the decoration image based on the position, as the decoration image to be superimposed on the person image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki KOMORIYA, Kazumi SERIZAWA, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Masaya MIURA, Kouji TAMURA, Seiei HIBINO, Rina MUKAI, Tomoya INAGAKI, Chinli DI
  • Publication number: 20210364299
    Abstract: The present disclosure efficiently performs delivery of delivery articles, collection of collection articles, and transportation of collection articles. The present disclosure is an information processing method including an information processing apparatus performing the following: setting a travel route of a vehicle that goes through both of a delivery position and a collection position based on information indicating the delivery position of a delivery article and information indicating the collection position of a collection article; and retrieving at least one recipient corresponding to an attribute of the collection article, and outputting information indicating the retrieved recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu TAKEZAWA, Hirotaka TODAKA, Takao KIGUCHI, Chieko SAWADA, Yosuke TOKUDA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Takuzo HIRANO, Taichi AMAKASU, Seiei HIBINO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210354534
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including: a plurality of dimming glass units used for a plurality of windows; a sensor that acquires an entering situation of natural light at a predetermined position; and a controller. The controller performs: specifying a first dimming glass unit that is a control target out of the plurality of dimming glass units in accordance with the entering situation of natural light; and controlling a light shielding property of the first dimming glass unit. The controller controls the first dimming glass unit so as to be into a light shielding state when the entering situation of natural light satisfies a first condition indicating that an occupant in the vehicle feels glaringness, and releases the light shielding state of the first dimming glass unit when the entering situation of natural light satisfies a second condition indicating that the occupant in the vehicle does not feel glaringness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu TAKEZAWA, Hirotaka TODAKA, Takao KIGUCHI, Chieko SAWADA, Yosuke TOKUDA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Takuzo HIRANO, Taichi AMAKASU, Seiei HIBINO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210295228
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to ship a shipping object at a right time in response to a demand. An information processing apparatus transmits demand information including a quantity demanded and a shipping deadline for an agricultural and marine product as a shipping object and shipping support information including information indicating shipping equipment that is capable of being provided in regard to shipping of the shipping object to a supplier, acquires information indicating shipping equipment that is desired to be provided and information indicating a carry-in place and a carry-in time for the shipping equipment desired to be provided from a supplier that performs shipping object supply appropriate to the demand information, and transmits an instruction to transport, by a vehicle, the shipping equipment desired to be provided in accordance with the information indicating the carry-in place and the carry-in time to a manager of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu TAKEZAWA, Hirotaka TODAKA, Takao KIGUCHI, Chieko SAWADA, Yosuke TOKUDA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Takuzo HIRANO, Taichi AMAKASU, Seiei HIBINO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210294309
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu TAKEZAWA, Hirotaka TODAKA, Takao KIGUCHI, Chieko SAWADA, Yosuke TOKUDA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Takuzo HIRANO, Taichi AMAKASU, Seiei HIBINO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210233025
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to deliver a construction machine through a preferred route. An information processing apparatus identifies, for a construction machine separable into an upper unit and an under unit including a self-propelled mechanism, an upper unit and an under unit to be delivered, based on positions of one or more upper units, positions of one or more under units, a position of a delivery place of the construction machine and a delivery deadline. The information processing apparatus identifies conveying vehicles to be used to convey the upper unit and under unit based on positions of the upper and under units and each position of conveying vehicles. The information processing apparatus calculates movement routes of the conveying vehicles. The information processing apparatus supplies information about the movement routes to terminals placed on the conveying vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu TAKEZAWA, Hirotaka TODAKA, Takao KIGUCHI, Chieko SAWADA, Yosuke TOKUDA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Takuzo HIRANO, Taichi AMAKASU, Seiei HIBINO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9902330
    Abstract: A tonneau cover assembly for a vehicle includes a tonneau cover having flexibility, a tonneau cover winding rod, a screen having flexibility, a screen winding rod, and a case. The tonneau cover winding rod is for rolling up the tonneau cover from the first end that is fixed to the tonneau cover winding rod. The screen winding rod is for rolling up the screen from the first end that is fixed to the screen winding rod. The case holds the tonneau cover, the tonneau cover winding rod, the screen, and the screen winding rod therein. The case includes an opening for releasing and retracting the tonneau cover and the screen. The tonneau cover winding rod is configured to release the tonneau cover at a portion of the tonneau cover winding rod located higher than a portion of the screen winding rod at which the screen winding rod releases the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Fujii, Seiei Hibino
  • Publication number: 20160347255
    Abstract: A tonneau cover assembly for a vehicle includes a tonneau cover having flexibility, a tonneau cover winding rod, a screen having flexibility, a screen winding rod, and a case. The tonneau cover winding rod is for rolling up the tonneau cover from the first end that is fixed to the tonneau cover winding rod. The screen winding rod is for rolling up the screen from the first end that is fixed to the screen winding rod. The case holds the tonneau cover, the tonneau cover winding rod, the screen, and the screen winding rod therein. The case includes an opening for releasing and retracting the tonneau cover and the screen. The tonneau cover winding rod is configured to release the tonneau cover at a portion of the tonneau cover winding rod located higher than a portion of the screen winding rod at which the screen winding rod releases the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji FUJII, Seiei HIBINO