Patents by Inventor Takehito Teraguchi
Takehito Teraguchi 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).
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Publication number: 20240144821Abstract: A method of displaying road information in a host vehicle includes receiving with the host vehicle the road information acquired by another vehicle. The road information includes information about a portion of a road ahead of a current portion of the road upon which the host vehicle is traveling. An information presentation time is determined at which the road information is configured to be presented in the host vehicle. The road information is presented in the host vehicle at the determined information presentation time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Takehito TERAGUCHI, Stefan WITWICKI, Erik ST GRAY
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Patent number: 11938958Abstract: The present disclosure including determining that a state of a load on an occupant in a vehicle on the basis of at least one of a traveling state of the vehicle (100), an external environment state of the vehicle, and a state of the occupant in the vehicle, and executing a dialogue with the occupant by executing a dialogue program corresponding to the state of the load on the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Teraguchi, Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Shota Okubo, Yu Shikoda
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Patent number: 11912295Abstract: A travel information processing apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice data of a user, an output device configured to specify an object by estimating from the voice data based on a word extracted from the voice data and indicating the object around a traveling route and a word extracted from the voice data and indicating a positional relationship of the object and output image data or voice data indicating a specified object; and a travel information processor configured to change a traveling motion of a subject vehicle based on the specified object.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20240035841Abstract: A vehicle includes a user input interface, an electronic display device and a processor. The user input interface is configured to allow a user to input one or more burden conditions of the user. The electronic display device is positioned in an interior compartment of the vehicle. The processor is programmed to control the electronic display device to display one or more route selections, the one or more route selections being based on the burden conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Stefan WITWICKI, Erik ST. GRAY, Takehito TERAGUCHI, Kyle WRAY
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Publication number: 20240035842Abstract: A vehicle includes an on-hoard satellite navigation device, a telematics control unit, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a processor. The on-board satellite navigation device is in communication with a global positioning system unit to acquire real-time information regarding conditions near the vehicle's vicinity, The telematics control unit is in wireless communications to a cloud services or a vehicle network to upload and receive crowdsourced information regarding conditions near the vehicle's vicinity. The non-transitory computer readable medium stores predetermined information regarding conditions near the vehicle vicinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Stefan WITWICKI, Erik ST. GRAY, Takehito TERAGUCHI, Anne BRÉTONNIÈRE
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Publication number: 20240019401Abstract: A quality evaluation device operates to: detect a defect present in a component based on a detection result obtained by a non-destructive inspection method; extract feature amounts of the defect from detection information of the defect; specify an evaluation target site in which the defect is present in the component; acquire one or more usage state information values associated with the evaluation target site, the usage state information values being estimated values that represent physical characteristics of the evaluation target site when the component is used; and determine, based at least on the feature amounts and the one or more usage state information values, whether or not the defect is an aggressive defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Teraguchi, Hiroshi Kasai, Yusuke Takayama
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Patent number: 11823537Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a getting-off determining unit that determines whether or not an occupant gets off a vehicle, a location determining unit that determines whether or not an electronic device to be used by the occupant in the vehicle is at a predetermined position in the vehicle, and a notification control unit that gives a predetermined notification to the occupant when the getting-off determining unit determines that the occupant gets off and the location determining unit determines that the electronic device is not at the predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Shikoda, Hirofumi Inoue, Takehito Teraguchi, Jo Nishiyama, Shota Okubo
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Patent number: 11820394Abstract: A device control apparatus includes a detector which detects sound; and a controller which controls a plurality of devices. The plurality of devices includes a first device which is not related to operation of a vehicle and a second device which is related to the operation of the vehicle. The controller is configured to: recognize voice of a user by using data of the sound detected by the detector; identify a type of an operation target device from a plurality of the devices and operation content of the operation target device, based on the voice recognized; notify a user of start of activating the first device by the operation content identified and activate the first device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the first device; and notify the user to request a response before the controller activates the second device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the second device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shota Ohkubo, Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda
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Patent number: 11709062Abstract: A boarding/deboarding point providing system includes a probe vehicle group, a data server, and an on-board unit or a mobile terminal. When vehicle data transmitted from the probe vehicle group are input, the data server extracts a boarding/deboarding point suitable for boarding a vehicle or deboarding a vehicle from the vehicle data, and stores the point while updating the boarding/deboarding point information database. When a request for boarding/deboarding point information is received from the on-board unit or the mobile terminal, the boarding/deboarding point information stored in the boarding/deboarding point information database is searched for a boarding/deboarding point that meets the request conditions, and the search result that includes the boarding/deboarding point is transmitted to the on-board unit or the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20230029272Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a getting-off determining unit that determines whether or not an occupant gets off a vehicle, a location determining unit that determines whether or not an electronic device to be used by the occupant in the vehicle is at a predetermined position in the vehicle, and a notification control unit that gives a predetermined notification to the occupant when the getting-off determining unit determines that the occupant gets off and the location determining unit determines that the electronic device is not at the predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Shikoda, Hirofumi Inoue, Takehito Teraguchi, Jo Nishiyama, Shota Okubo
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Patent number: 11523251Abstract: The information processing device includes a communicator 31 for communicating with a vehicle 40 and a mobile device operated by a user, and a controller 33 for controlling the communicator 31, and the controller 33 acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle 40 and position information indicating the position of the mobile device via the communicator 31, and outputs sound data for identifying the vehicle 40 from the communicator 31 to the mobile device in accordance with the distance between the position of the vehicle 40 and the position of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT S.A.S.Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20220101633Abstract: A boarding permission determination device includes a controller that receive a signal from a sensor that is mounted on a vehicle to detect at least a prescribed movement of a person in the periphery of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The controller is configured to determine a stop location for the vehicle and register information indicating characteristics of the person in a storage device when the prescribed movement of the person was detected while the vehicle is traveling. The controller is configured to control the vehicle such that the vehicle stops at the stop location that was determined. The controller is configured to control a prescribed device mounted on the vehicle such that the person can board the vehicle after the vehicle is stopped at the stop location, after recognizing the person that was detected while the vehicle was traveling using the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Jo NISHIYAMA, Hirofumi INOUE, Takehito TERAGUCHI, Yu SHIKODA, Shota OKUBO
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Publication number: 20210389141Abstract: A boarding/deboarding point providing system includes a probe vehicle group, a data server, and an on-board unit or a mobile terminal. When vehicle data transmitted from the probe vehicle group are input, the data server extracts a boarding/deboarding point suitable for boarding a vehicle or deboarding a vehicle from the vehicle data, and stores the point while updating the boarding/deboarding point information database. When a request for boarding/deboarding point information is received from the on-board unit or the mobile terminal, the boarding/deboarding point information stored in the boarding/deboarding point information database is searched for a boarding/deboarding point that meets the request conditions, and the search result that includes the boarding/deboarding point is transmitted to the on-board unit or the mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Hirofumi INOUE, Jo NISHIYAMA, Takehito TERAGUCHI, Yu SHIKODA, Shota OKUBO
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Publication number: 20210309241Abstract: The present disclosure including determining that a state of a load on an occupant in a vehicle on the basis of at least one of a traveling state of the vehicle (100), an external environment state of the vehicle, and a state of the occupant in the vehicle, and executing a dialogue with the occupant by executing a dialogue program corresponding to the state of the load on the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Teraguchi, Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Shota Okubo, Yu Shikoda
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Publication number: 20210261146Abstract: A travel information processing apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice data of a user, an output device configured to specify an object by estimating from the voice data based on a word extracted from the voice data and indicating the object around a traveling route and a word extracted from the voice data and indicating a positional relationship of the object and output image data or voice data indicating a specified object; and a travel information processor configured to change a traveling motion of a subject vehicle based on the specified object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20210206384Abstract: The disclosure includes a first information acquiring device configured to acquire motion information related to a motion of an occupant; a second information acquiring device configured to acquire operation information related to an input operation to a predetermined onboard device, the input operation being based on the motion of the occupant; a memory configured to store the motion information and the operation information in association with each other; a motion detecting device configured to detect the motion of an occupant; and a controller configured to, when the motion information related to the motion of the occupant detected by the motion detecting device is stored in the memory, output command information related to an operation command to the onboard device by referring to the operation information stored in association with the motion information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jo Nishiyama, Hirofumi Inoue, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20210204092Abstract: The information processing device includes a communicator 31 for communicating with a vehicle 40 and a mobile device operated by a user, and a controller 33 for controlling the communicator 31, and the controller 33 acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle 40 and position information indicating the position of the mobile device via the communicator 31, and outputs sound data for identifying the vehicle 40 from the communicator 31 to the mobile device in accordance with the distance between the position of the vehicle 40 and the position of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT S.A.S.Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
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Publication number: 20210174790Abstract: An operation assistance device for vehicles includes a human relationship analysis unit, a human relationship storage unit, and an assistance information determination unit. The operation assistance device obtains recommendation information suitable for an occupant composition including human relationships and provides the recommendation information for assisting a vehicle operation. The analysis unit acquires conversation voice data of a plurality of persons to specify speakers, analyzes the acquired data for each specified speaker to extract a predetermined keyword, specifies a speech pattern of each speaker based on the keyword, specifies conversation content based on the acquired data, and analyzes and quantifies direct human relationships among the persons from the specified speech pattern and conversation content. The storage unit preliminarily accumulates the direct human relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jo Nishiyama, Hirofumi Inoue, Takehito Teraguchi, Jun Kasai
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Publication number: 20210163032Abstract: A device control apparatus includes a detector which detects sound; and a controller which controls a plurality of devices. The plurality of devices includes a first device which is not related to operation of a vehicle and a second device which is related to the operation of the vehicle. The controller is configured to: recognize voice of a user by using data of the sound detected by the detector; identify a type of an operation target device from a plurality of the devices and operation content of the operation target device, based on the voice recognized; notify a user of start of activating the first device by the operation content identified and activate the first device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the first device; and notify the user to request a response before the controller activates the second device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shota Ohkubo, Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda