Patents by Inventor Takumi Fukunaga

Takumi Fukunaga 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: 11912276
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11904879
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Patent number: 11891079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20220048519
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires first information on a behavior of a first vehicle associated with each operation performed by a first driver on the first vehicle and second information on a change in emotion of a user who shares the first vehicle, extracts information on a change in the user's emotion associated with each behavior of the first vehicle by associating the first information with the second information, determines a user's evaluation of the first driver's driving based on information on the change in the user's emotion associated with each behavior of the first vehicle, and stores the determined evaluation in a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Takumi Fukunaga, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20210407691
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus, and a plurality of second information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus acquires movement history information on an infected person with a predetermined infectious disease, identifies, based on the movement history information, a first place that the infected person visited and a first visit date and time, and notifies the second information processing apparatus associated with the first place of information about the first place and the first visit date and time. Each second information processing apparatus identifies, based on visit history information including a visit date and time of the predetermined place by users who are associated with the predetermined place, a first user who visited the first place on the first visit date and time, and notify the first user of possibility of being infected with the predetermined infectious disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210383418
    Abstract: A car sharing management device includes a communication device and an information processing device. The communication device is configured to acquire, from an information terminal owned by a user of a car sharing service, commercial facility information acquired by the information terminal at a commercial facility. The information processing device is configured to determine, based on the commercial facility information, whether the user uses the commercial facility while using the car sharing service. The information processing device is configured to provide the user with a reward in a case where the user uses the commercial facility while using the car sharing service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Umeda, Takumi Fukunaga, Makoto Akahane, Satoshi Usui
  • Publication number: 20210370964
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technology for preventing a smooth flow of traffic from being hindered by a vehicle that is unnecessarily stopped on a road. An information processing device detects that display of a traffic light is switched from a first signal instructing a vehicle to stop to a second signal allowing the vehicle to proceed. When the display of the traffic light is switched from the first signal to the second signal, the information processing device transmits a first command to a mobile terminal carried by a driver of a first vehicle that is stopped before the traffic light, the first command instructing that a first notification for urging the driver to start moving the first vehicle be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Hikaru GOTOH, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11127029
    Abstract: A car sharing management device includes a communication device and an information processing device. The communication device is configured to acquire, from an information terminal owned by a user of a car sharing service, commercial facility information acquired by the information terminal at a commercial facility. The information processing device is configured to determine, based on the commercial facility information, whether the user uses the commercial facility while using the car sharing service. The information processing device is configured to provide the user with a reward in a case where the user uses the commercial facility while using the car sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Umeda, Takumi Fukunaga, Makoto Akahane, Satoshi Usui
  • Publication number: 20210289331
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprises a controller configured to perform: acquiring traveling-related data related to traveling of two or more vehicles including a first vehicle and a second vehicle; determining, based on the traveling-related data, that the first vehicle is in any one of a plurality of predefined situations; identifying, based on the traveling-related data, the second vehicle that is located in a vicinity of the first vehicle and is involved in the determined situation; determining, based on the determined situation and a preference associated with the second vehicle, an image to be transmitted to the second vehicle; and transmitting the image to the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210253099
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210256851
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane is allowed to smoothly merge into a main lane. An information processing apparatus includes a controller is configured to: identify a second vehicle traveling on a main lane behind a cutting-in position at which a first vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane cuts in; and perform at least any one of notifying the first vehicle of first guidance that prompts the first vehicle to merge into the main lane at a far end of the acceleration lane, and notifying the second vehicle of second guidance that prompts the second vehicle to assist the first vehicle in merging into the main lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Hikaru GOTOH, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210233398
    Abstract: This disclosure achieves smooth traffic. An information processing apparatus has a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining first data representing a driving tendency of a first vehicle; obtaining second data representing a driving tendency of each second vehicle located in the vicinity of the first vehicle; aggregating the second data corresponding to a plurality of the second vehicles thereby to generate reference data; and calculating a degree of similarity between the first data and the reference data thereby to notify a driver of the first vehicle when there is a deviation of a predetermined value or more between the first data and the reference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210221394
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210221395
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200364642
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to extract a combination of luggage and a vehicle in which a delivery destination included in delivery request information for requesting delivery of luggage and a destination included in use request information satisfy matching conditions based on the delivery request information and the use request information for requesting use of a vehicle which is able to be used through a request by a plurality of users and which is able to provide a vehicular compartment for loading luggage of which delivery is requested by a requester other than the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200327471
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor having at least of one piece of hardware. The processor is configured to send a reconfirmation notification on a storage time limit to a client terminal associated with a client who has requested a delivery of a package when a vehicle that is parked or stopped in a predetermined area for providing a vehicle cabin thereof for receiving other person's packages stores the package and when it is within a predetermined time until the storage time limit of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200327483
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor having at least one piece of hardware. The processor is configured to determine whether a schedule can be changed based on the information on a package to be collected or delivered when a schedule change request is received from a client terminal or a provider terminal. The client terminal is associated with a client of a delivery of a package, and the provider terminal is associated with a provider of a vehicle which is parked or stopped in a predetermined area and the vehicle cabin of which is provided as a collection/delivery place of the package. Then, the processor sends a determination result to the sending terminal of the schedule change request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200320477
    Abstract: The vehicle selection apparatus includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor selects a vehicle for collection and delivery of a package that is a collection and delivery target, based on parking and stopping information that includes information about the positions of a plurality of vehicles parked or stopped in a predetermined region, of which the vehicle cabins are usable for package reception, and information about the parking and stopping of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20190272568
    Abstract: A recommendation device includes: a search instruction receiving unit configured to receive a search instruction including a purpose and a movement start position, the purpose and the movement start position being input by a user; a route searching unit configured to, based on the search instruction, search for a route for movement from the movement start position to a place corresponding to the purpose; and a recommendation unit configured to generate, based on the route, recommendation information including at least a rental place of a vehicle, the vehicle being used for a service of car sharing, and a return place of the vehicle, and present the recommendation information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro UMEDA, Takumi Fukunaga, Makoto Akahane, Satoshi Usui
  • Publication number: 20190266666
    Abstract: A vehicle management device includes a processor. The processor is configured to analyze a use status of a vehicle, available in a car sharing service for a predetermined time range with respect to each rental place to rent the vehicle based on use record information for the vehicle and change a use fee for the predetermined time range based on the analyzed use status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Umeda, Takumi Fukunaga, Makoto Akahane, Satoshi Usui