Patents by Inventor Chie Sugihara

Chie Sugihara 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).

  • Publication number: 20200391605
    Abstract: A management device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire information indicating remaining energy amounts of vehicles parked in a parking lot; a determiner configured to determine a remaining energy amount of a vehicle parked in the parking lot so that a sum of the acquired remaining energy amounts is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; and a replenisher configured to replenish energy of the parked vehicle based on the remaining energy amount determined by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200387153
    Abstract: A parking lot management system including a vehicle using a parking lot, a vehicle control application to be executed by a terminal device used by a user of the vehicle, and a management device which is capable of communicating with the vehicle and the vehicle control application and manages at least one of a parking position, a movement trajectory, and a movement order of the vehicle using the parking lot. When communication with the vehicle control application has failed, the management device causes the vehicle and the vehicle control application to perform direct communication and acquires a communication result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200385016
    Abstract: A control device includes a getting-into/out facility selection unit configured to select one or more getting-into/out facilities where a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot will stop from among a plurality of getting-into/out facilities on the basis of at least information indicating a driving assistance level at which driving assistance can be executed by the vehicle and information associated with the parking lot having the plurality of getting-into/out facilities and a guidance unit configured to guide the vehicle to the selected getting-into/out facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200384983
    Abstract: A management device guides a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces. The management device includes: a communicator configured to receive parking situation information which is information generated based on a recognition result by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle, the parking situation information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space adjacent to a route along which the vehicle is traveling; and an extractor configured to extract a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the received parking situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200387840
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a user of a vehicle parked in a parking lot, and a processing unit that determines whether or not an arrival time of the user at a predetermined position in the parking lot exceeds a reserved time period included in parking reservation information on the basis of the position information of the user, determines whether or not to move the vehicle from a parking position on the basis of a result of the determination as to whether the arrival time exceeds the reserved time period, and performs processing based on a result of the determination as to whether to move the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200384985
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a communicator which communicates with a management device that guides a vehicle capable of automatedly traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information representing parking states of a plurality of parking spaces, a recognizer which recognizes a surrounding state of the vehicle, and a generator which generates parking state information including information representing whether other vehicles are parked in parking spaces which the vehicle passes on the basis of a result recognized by the recognizer and transmits the parking state information to the management device using the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200365019
    Abstract: An information-processing device includes a first controller configured to determine the number of users using a vehicle that enters or leaves a parking lot or a weight of the vehicle and a second controller configured to determine a position where the vehicle is stopped within a predetermined area of the parking lot on the basis of the number of users or the weight determined by the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200361414
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to transmit a virtual key enabling an operation on a vehicle through automated valet parking control to another device by using a communicator communicating with the other device; and an operation controller configured to operate the vehicle according to operation information of the vehicle in a case where the communicator receives use information of the virtual key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200361496
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle, and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer. When moving the vehicle to a parking area after detecting that an occupant gets off the vehicle at a stop position, the driving controller adjusts a start timing for starting the vehicle based on the number of vehicles stopped at the stop position recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20200361462
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, A vehicle control device includes: a processor; a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to: recognize a surrounding environment of a host vehicle; and perform driving control of one or both of a speed and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein performing driving control comprises storing a traveling trajectory until the host vehicle enters a parking place in a storage, generating a scheduled traveling route for leaving using the traveling trajectory when the host vehicle leaves the parking place, and causing the host vehicle to travel on the basis of the generated scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200361450
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a first vehicle and a driving controller configured to cause the first vehicle to stop in a predetermined area of a parking lot by controlling at least one of steering and a speed of the first vehicle on the basis of the situation recognized by the recognizer. When a specific user having priority over another user to get into or out of the first vehicle uses the first vehicle, the driving controller causes the first vehicle to stop at a priority position closer to a pedestrian gate leading to an outside of the parking lot than other positions within the area in preference to a second vehicle different from the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200365026
    Abstract: A parking lot management apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a parking lot management apparatus including a processor a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to receive designation of an exit reservation time at which a vehicle will exit a parking lot and confirm presence or absence of the designation of the exit reservation time for a vehicle intended to be parked in the parking lot, wherein receiving designation of the exit reservation time with respect to an unreserved vehicle for which to confirm that the exit reservation time has not been designated before a user alights from the vehicle to be parked in the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200361451
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mountable in a vehicle and including an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of a frame line of a second parking frame from other vehicle stopped at the second parking frame adjacent to a first parking frame at which the vehicle automatically parks, and a calculator configured to calculate a position of a frame line of the first parking frame on the basis of the positional information of the frame line of the second parking frame acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200365027
    Abstract: A management device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a use situation of a specific area for stopping of a vehicle, and a guide configured to guide a second vehicle having a smaller vehicle body than a vehicle body of a first vehicle to the specific area when there is no first stop space and there is a second stop space in the specific area, on the basis of the use situation recognized by the recognizer, the first stop space is a space in which the first vehicle or the second vehicle is able to stop, and the second stop space is a space in which the first vehicle is not able to stop and the second vehicle is able to stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200365025
    Abstract: A control device includes a transport mechanism that can transport one or more vehicles placed on the transport mechanism in an area where at least boarding or alighting is performed and a transport mechanism controller that controls an operation of the transport mechanism, wherein the transport mechanism controller controls the transport mechanism to transport a vehicle placed on the transport mechanism to a parking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20200307557
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a vehicle and a terminal device of a user of the vehicle; a return manager configured to determine a sequence in which the vehicle arrives at a boarding area in which the user boards based on a position of the user recognized based on information acquired by the communicator, whether there is a return request of the vehicle from a parking lot which is acquired by the communicator, and coincidence between a time at which the return request of the vehicle is acquired and a return reservation time of the vehicle acquired in advance by the communicator; and a vehicle controller configured to transmit information which is used by a return target vehicle in autonomous traveling from the parking lot to the boarding area to the return target vehicle based on a sequence of the return target vehicle determined by the return manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307648
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a platform selector configured to refer to information associated with a parking lot having a plurality of platforms and select one or more platforms from among the plurality of platforms in response to a leaving request for requesting movement of a vehicle parked in the parking lot from a parking position of the vehicle to the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200311783
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes an acceptance unit configured to accept leaving requests for requesting movement of vehicles parked in a parking lot to a stopping area for a predetermined number of vehicles in each time slot and a recognizer configured to acquire information for recognizing a stopping situation of the vehicles in the stopping area and recognize the stopping situation of the vehicles in the stopping area on the basis of the acquired information. The acceptance unit is configured to adjust the number of vehicles whose leaving requests are accepted in a subsequent time slot on the basis of whether or not the situation of the stopping area recognized by the recognizer indicates a tendency for vehicles to stop for a time period longer than a predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200311621
    Abstract: A management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a usage status of a parking lot, An information processor configured to refer to the usage status acquired by the acquirer and, when a first vehicle having entered a facility including a parking lot cannot use the parking lot within predetermined time after the entry, to receive a first post-entry reservation for a use of the parking lot of the first vehicle, and a provider configured to provide a user of the first vehicle with first information on the first post-entry reservation received by the information processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200311641
    Abstract: A parking area management device includes: a recognizer that recognizes vehicles in a parking area; and a parking position determiner that determines a parking position of vehicles in the parking area on the basis of a vehicle length and a vehicle width of each of the vehicles recognized by the recognizer. The parking position determiner virtually sets parking frames in which the vehicles can park on the basis of outer dimensions of the vehicles recognized by the recognizer and map information of the parking area and determines the set parking frames as parking positions of the vehicles in the parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi