Patents by Inventor Shuhei MANABE

Shuhei MANABE 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: 11941314
    Abstract: A display control device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information regarding a plurality of driving evaluation items set in advance; count, as the number of times of measurement, the number of times that at least one of a vehicle state and a driving state meets each of the driving evaluation items while a driver is driving a vehicle; display the driving evaluation items in a display region in a vehicle cabin; and visually display information relating to the remaining number of times that is a difference between the permissible number of times set for each of the driving evaluation items and the number of times of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo, Kenya Takagi
  • Publication number: 20240075940
    Abstract: An individual characteristics management device includes: a data acquiring section acquiring driving data relating to a plurality of driving evaluation items that are set in advance, and an individual characteristics estimating section estimating individual characteristics of a driver based on the driving data acquired by the data acquiring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shuhei MANABE, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240054825
    Abstract: A individual characteristics management system includes: first storage installed at a vehicle and storing first data relating to individual characteristics of a user; second storage provided at an exterior of the vehicle and storing second data relating to the individual characteristics; and a controller updating the first data and the second data respectively based on a driving state of the user, wherein the controller updates, during driving by the user and based on a driving vehicle, the first data stored in the first storage, and updates the second data based on the updated first data and the second data stored in the second storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025437
    Abstract: A personalization setting unit sets enable and disable of a personalization function that allows the set value to be changed to a recommended value for each of the driver assistance functions and for each driver registered in the driver information registration unit. A recommended value calculation unit obtains the recommended value based on driving-related information of the driver including a driving history. A change condition setting unit sorts a plurality of the recommended values into an approval type recommended value that requires an approval of the driver and an automatic change type recommended value that does not require the approval of the driver. A display control unit is able to display an approval screen for the approval type recommended value on a center display that is a display unit, and suspends display of the approval screen while the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025432
    Abstract: A personalization setting unit requests a new driver for setting whether to use a personalization function that is able to change a set value of a driver assistance function to a recommended value for each driver assistance function when the new driver is registered in a driver information registration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025433
    Abstract: A driver information registration unit can register driver information of a vehicle. A personalization data storage unit (registered driver data storage unit) stores a driving history for each registered driver who is a driver registered in the driver information registration unit. An additional function extraction unit extracts an additional assistance function that is a driver assistance function that can be newly added for each registered driver based on the driving history. A display control unit can output a proposal image that proposes the registered driver an acquisition of the additional assistance function to a center panel display (display unit).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025431
    Abstract: When there is a new driving assistance function for a registered driver, which is a driving assistance function enabled for the first time for the relevant registered driver among a plurality of driving assistance functions to be enabled for registered drivers, a test executor executes a driving ability test according to the new driving assistance function for the relevant registered driver. A personalization setter determines recommended setting values of the new driving assistance function based on the result of the driving ability test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240020749
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing device includes: a package information acquisition unit that acquires package information about a combination of setting items selected from a plurality of setting items related to driving assistance; a link generation unit that generates a link that allows access to the acquired package information; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information about a vehicle of a user who has accessed the link; and a determination unit that determines whether the combination of the setting items is applicable to the vehicle based on the acquired vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KSBUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko MASUDA, Shuhei MANABE, Akihito NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230401903
    Abstract: A driving diagnostic device including a processor installed in a vehicle that also includes an information acquisition section configured to acquire vehicle related information related to the vehicle. The processor is capable of wirelessly transmitting the vehicle related information to a first driving diagnostic section that is provided not in the vehicle and that is configured to perform a first driving diagnosis of the vehicle using the vehicle related information acquired from the information acquisition section and is capable of executing a second driving diagnosis of the vehicle using the vehicle related information received from the information acquisition section by utilizing a network of the vehicle. The processor also decides whether to transmit the vehicle related information to the first driving diagnostic section or to receive the vehicle related information based on a mode of the first driving diagnosis or the second driving diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Shuhei MANABE
  • Patent number: 11667282
    Abstract: A driving assistance system performs a driver-initiative normal driving assistance mode as a driving assistance for a vehicle. The system includes a reaction force characteristics change unit configured to change reaction force characteristics of the operation device, if it is determined that the operation amount of the driver is not included in the appropriate operation amount range in the normal driving assistance mode, an explicit risk determination unit configured to determine whether or not an explicit risk is present based on the external environment of the vehicle, and a driving assistance switching unit configured to switch a driving assistance for the vehicle from the normal driving assistance mode to a system-initiative risk avoidance assistance mode, if it is determined by the explicit risk determination unit that the explicit risk is present in the normal driving assistance mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Shintaro Inoue, Shusaku Sugamoto, Shuhei Manabe
  • Patent number: 11654930
    Abstract: A display control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a browsing history including a record indicating that vehicle driving information corresponding to each of a plurality of display elements was displayed on the display unit of each of the driver of a vehicle and a manager who manages the driver, an identification unit configured to identify a specific element from among the display elements based on the difference between the number of browses by the driver and the number of browses by the manager that are recorded in the browsing history acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit of at least one of the driver and the manager to display the specific element with the display form of the specific element, identified by the identification unit, made different from the display form of the other display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagatani, Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11565748
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus predicts an appropriate operation amount which is an operation amount performed by a driver in correspondence with the external environment, and sets the appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, an appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, and changes the reaction force characteristics of the operation device when it is determined that the operation amount of the driver corresponding to the prediction time point of the appropriate operation amount is not included in the appropriate operation amount range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shusaku Sugamoto, Terumasa Endo, Satoshi Inoue, Takeshi Hamaguchi, Shuhei Manabe
  • Publication number: 20220406105
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a decision unit that decides upper limits of respective individual evaluation values for a plurality of calculation items such that a total of the upper limits is a previously determined value, the individual evaluation values being relevant to driving of a driver, the calculation items being calculation items for which the individual evaluation values are calculated; an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; a calculation unit that calculates the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items within the upper limits decided by the decision unit, based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items that are calculated by the calculation unit and a total evaluation value that is a total of the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chisato SUGIURA, Ai ITO, Akihito NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Takaaki NAGATANI, Shuhei MANABE, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220377286
    Abstract: An acquisition unit that acquires a facial image of a driver of a vehicle captured by an imaging unit, a determination unit that determines appropriateness of continuation of driving by the driver based on the facial image acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit that, in a case where the determination unit determines that there is a possibility that the continuation of the driving by the driver is not appropriate, causes a display unit on a manager side, the manager managing the driver, to display the facial image based on which the determination unit determines that there is the possibility that the continuation of the driving by the driver is not appropriate are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kota WASHIO, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20220315030
    Abstract: A display control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a browsing history including a record indicating that vehicle driving information corresponding to each of a plurality of display elements was displayed on the display unit of each of the driver of a vehicle and a manager who manages the driver, an identification unit configured to identify a specific element from among the display elements based on the difference between the number of browses by the driver and the number of browses by the manager that are recorded in the browsing history acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit of at least one of the driver and the manager to display the specific element with the display form of the specific element, identified by the identification unit, made different from the display form of the other display elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagatani, Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220309841
    Abstract: A driving evaluation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires at least one of vehicle information related to a vehicle state and driving information related to a driving state of drivers; a determination unit that determines whether a predetermined failure operation related to driving has been performed based on at least one of the vehicle information and the driving information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a calculation unit that calculates a failure operation probability that is a probability that the failure operation was performed, based on the failure operation determined by the determination unit, and uses a Z score of the failure operation probability calculated based on the failure operation probability to calculate an evaluation value related to the driving of the drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei Manabe
  • Publication number: 20220306137
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a standard driving model of a vehicle is stored in a model storage unit. A risk level determination unit compares a driving operation by a driver with a normative driving operation output from the standard driving model and determines a risk level of the driving operation. An operation limiting unit inputs, to a drive unit, a drive signal adjusted based on the determination by the risk level determination unit on the risk level of the driving operation by the driver so as to limit driving of the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220291888
    Abstract: A display control device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information regarding a plurality of driving evaluation items set in advance; count, as the number of times of measurement, the number of times that at least one of a vehicle state and a driving state meets each of the driving evaluation items while a driver is driving a vehicle; display the driving evaluation items in a display region in a vehicle cabin; and visually display information relating to the remaining number of times that is a difference between the permissible number of times set for each of the driving evaluation items and the number of times of measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo, Kenya Takagi
  • Publication number: 20220289204
    Abstract: A driving diagnosis device includes a detection value recorder configured to acquire and record a detection value detected by a detector provided in a vehicle from a detection value acquirer for acquiring the detection value, the detection value being a physical quantity that changes based on at least one of traveling, steering, and braking of the vehicle or a physical quantity that changes by operation of a predetermined operating member, an information extractor configured to extract a specific detection value that is the detection value specified from the detection value recorder, a KPI acquirer configured to acquire a key performance indicator based on the specific detection value, and a score calculator configured to calculate a driving operation score based on the key performance indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20220292885
    Abstract: A driving diagnostic device includes a diagnosis result generation unit and a database unit. The diagnosis result generation unit generates a driving diagnosis result that is a diagnosis result regarding a driving operation of a vehicle based on a detection value that is a physical quantity that changes based on at least one of traveling, steering, and braking of the vehicle or a physical quantity that changes when a predetermined operating member is operated, and that is detected by a detection unit provided in the vehicle. The database unit records the driving diagnosis result, connection to the database unit being able to be established via the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei MANABE