Patents by Inventor Toshiaki TAZUME

Toshiaki TAZUME 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: 11986114
    Abstract: A delivery system S performs authenticating process of authenticating at least any one of an UGV 1 and an article delivered by the UGV 1 in a case where the UGV 1 arrives at a delivery destination, and performs opening/closing control of a first carry-in port from which the article is carried in at the delivery destination on the basis of the authentication result of the UGV 1 or the article delivered by the UGV 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11989039
    Abstract: A control system includes at least one memory storing program code and at least one processor. The program code is configured to cause the at least one processor to estimate size of a short visibility airspace, based on a location of a first point at which an aircraft detects the short visibility airspace, a location of a second point at which the aircraft determines that the aircraft has entered the short visibility airspace, and sensing information acquired at the first point. The program code also causes the at least one processor to perform control to cause the aircraft to move to a safe airspace that is set based on the estimated size of the short visibility airspace when it is determined that flight continuation along a route passing through the short visibility airspace is impracticable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11970267
    Abstract: A control device (200) includes a ground vehicle controller (230) that causes a ground vehicle to travel at a target area, an acquirer (210) that acquires state information expressing a state of a surface of the target area while the ground vehicle travels the target area, and a determiner (240) that determines, based on the acquired state information, whether or not an aircraft is landable at the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11954633
    Abstract: The information processing device acquires load information of a load to be transported by UGV 1; acquires environmental information obtained by sensing an environment around the UGV by a sensor mounted on the UGV at a transport destination of the load; and determines a place where the load is placed by the UGV at the transport destination on the basis of the load information and the environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Patent number: 11928973
    Abstract: A flight system includes an aerial vehicle having a sensor and capable of flying unmanned. The flight system estimates a condition of dust in an area of a scheduled destination, on the basis of sensing data obtained by observing, with the sensor, the area from a flight position of the aerial vehicle. Then, the flight system controls the aerial vehicle on the basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11905032
    Abstract: Provided is an aircraft, a system, and a method whereby the visibility of the aircraft from a predetermined point can be improved. The aircraft includes at least one memory and at least one processor. Program code includes control code configured to cause the at least one processor to perform orientation change control for causing a first face to face a predetermined point, the first face being a face of the aircraft and having a predetermined color, or display control for causing an image of the predetermined color to be displayed on a second face, the second face being a display surface of a display device of the aircraft and a partial face or an entire face facing the predetermined point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11893867
    Abstract: An UGV 1 acquires a moving image of an captured imaging area, detects a receiver of an article on the basis of frame images forming the moving image, sets, as the monitoring area, an area including at least a part of the receiver and the area at a point in time when the receiver appears, detects a outsider entering the monitoring area or a outsider heading for the monitoring area on the basis of a frame image that is temporally later than a first frame image at the point in time when the receiver appears, and executes processing for notifying the receiver of outsider detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tazume, Daiki Tanaka, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Patent number: 11893894
    Abstract: A landing management device sets a partition, in a predetermined landing area, on the basis of information of an unmanned aerial vehicle that lands on a landing area, the partition being obtained by virtually partitioning a part of the landing area, and transmits landing control information to a control device, in order to make the unmanned aerial vehicle land on a partial area corresponding to the partition. The control device controls landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the basis of the landing control information received from the landing management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Qingnan Zhou, Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11875689
    Abstract: A management device that manages a flight route of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) includes a communication unit that acquires a detection result of an obstacle by a first UAV including an obstacle detection function and an evaluating unit that generates evaluation data of the flight route for selecting a UAV to fly on the flight route based on the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11869370
    Abstract: In an unmanned aerial vehicle system S, a target position Pt to which UAV 1a is headed among a plurality of UAVs 1 is determined on the basis of a position of each of a plurality of ports 2, and the UAV 1a is controlled to fly toward the target position Pt. And then, a port 2x to be used for landing of the UAV 1a is determined on the basis of a reservation status of each of the plurality of ports 2 by the other UAV 1 different from the UAV 1a among the plurality of the UAVs 1 while the UAV 1a is flying toward the target position Pt, and the UAV 1a is controlled to fly toward the determined port 2x.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tazume, Hayato Mizukami, Qingnan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11854406
    Abstract: A control device (900) includes an acquirer (910) that acquires information expressing weather related to a port that is a location at which a landing of an aircraft is scheduled, and a controller (930) that causes an alerter to perform a behavior corresponding to the weather expressed in the acquired information. The alerter performs an alert related to the landing of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Patent number: 11816999
    Abstract: Detection means of an unmanned aerial vehicle control system is configured to detect an object existing at a location at which at least one of landing or takeoff of an unmanned aerial vehicle is to be performed. Type identification means is configured to identify a type of the object based on a result of detection by the detection means. Restriction means is configured to restrict at least one of landing or takeoff of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the type identified by the type identification means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tazume, Hayato Mizukami, Qingnan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11816627
    Abstract: Provided is a transport system, a control device, and a method whereby package transport efficiency can be improved. A transport system 1 includes at least one memory configured to store a program code, and at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code. The program code includes a detection code configured to cause the at least one processor to detect a first package to be collected at a specified collection location, and an identification code configured to cause the at least one processor to identify a second package to be delivered to the collection location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Publication number: 20230347820
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle is configured to execute an acquisition process that acquires sound identification information selected by one or more other unmanned vehicles located nearby. The sound identification information is included in multiple types of sound identification information each associated with a sound that has a different characteristic. The unmanned vehicle is further configured to execute a sound selection process that refers to the acquired sound identification information to select sound identification information that is different from the sound identification information selected by at least one of the other unmanned vehicles and an output control process that outputs a sound having a characteristic corresponding to the selected sound identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230351313
    Abstract: A logistics management server includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to acquire route plans for unmanned vehicles each delivering a package to a delivery point. The circuitry is further configured to determine whether a first unmanned vehicle and a second unmanned vehicle will approach each other based on the acquired route plan for the first unmanned vehicle and the acquired route plan for the second unmanned vehicle, and when determining that the first unmanned vehicle and the second unmanned vehicle will approach each other, set sound identification information such that a sound output from the first unmanned vehicle and a sound output from the second unmanned vehicle each have a different characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230339511
    Abstract: The unmanned vehicle for delivering an article, includes a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on a receiving surface of the article. Then, the unmanned vehicle identifies a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle; and on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, suppresses closing of the door, opened when the unmanned vehicle is stopped, due to an influence of the wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Patent number: 11775899
    Abstract: An information processing system, a device, and a method capable of identifying a time required for a vehicle to transport a product to a specified location specified by a user or an arrival time at which a product, transported by a vehicle, arrives at the specified location with high precision. An acceptor accepts product information relating to a product purchasable by a user and performance information indicating vehicle performance of a vehicle associated with the user. An identifier performs identification of a time required for the vehicle to transport the product relating to the accepted product information to a location specified by the user or identification of an arrival time at which the product arrives at the specified location, based on the accepted performance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11775917
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided are an information processing device, a system, and a method that are capable of, based on weather, determining the type of an article that is transportable by a vehicle. [Solution] An information processing device (500) includes an acquirer (510) that acquires weather information indicating weather in an area in which a vehicle is scheduled to move and a determiner (540) that, based on the acquired weather information, determines a type of an article that is transportable by the vehicle in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Publication number: 20230305571
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle is configured to execute: a capturing device detection process that detects an external capturing device located at or around a delivery location where a package is to be received; a range identifying process that identifies a capture range of the external capturing device; a stop position determining process that determines, within the capture range of the external capturing device, a stop position of the unmanned vehicle at which the package is to be received; and a movement control process that stops the unmanned vehicle at the stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230297934
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle executes: a movement control process that moves the unmanned aerial vehicle to a delivery area including a delivery address to which a package is to be delivered, the delivery area including delivery destination candidates, and each of the delivery destination candidates including an identification information indicator located at a position where the identification information indicator is readable from outside; an identification information acquiring process that acquires identification information associated with each delivery destination candidate by reading a corresponding identification information indicator; a delivery destination identifying process that identifies, as a delivery destination, a delivery destination candidate in which the acquired identification information matches the delivery address; a position identifying process that identifies a receiving position of the package based on a position of the identified delivery destination; and a placing process that place
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daiki TANAKA, Toshiaki TAZUME, Takayoshi INUMA