Patents by Inventor Daigo Fujii

Daigo Fujii 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: 20240013132
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a mobile object for delivering a delivery article by placing the delivery article at a delivery position. The controller is configured to determine the delivery position based on environmental information for a delivery destination and control the mobile object to place the delivery article at the delivery position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230421384
    Abstract: A vehicle that autonomously delivers a package includes a control unit that executes communication with an electronic signature issuing machine installed at a delivery destination for collating the package with the delivery destination, acquires an electronic signature from the electronic signature issuing machine when a collation is achieved between the package and the delivery destination, and drives the vehicle such that the package is left at the delivery destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230409029
    Abstract: A vehicle that autonomously delivers a package includes a control unit that captures a first image when the vehicle leaves the package at a first position and transmits the first image to a user and drives the vehicle such that a delivery point is corrected from the first position to a second position based on correction information for correcting the delivery point, the correction information being information from the user who has confirmed the first image, when receiving the correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230405832
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a control unit that determines whether or not to stack the package based on the package information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke Yamane, Daigo Fujii, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takurou Sakai
  • Patent number: 11790306
    Abstract: A server apparatus, a vehicle, a service provision system, and a non-transitory storage medium storing a program are disclosed. The server apparatus includes circuitry configured to transmit, to an information terminal of a user, information regarding a service available to the user, receive, from the information terminal, information regarding the service, selected by the user, receive, from the information terminal, package information regarding a package of the user, first location information indicating a location to receive the package from the user, first time information indicating a time to receive the package from the user, second location information indicating a location to return the package, and second time information indicating a time to return the package, and arrange a specified vehicle based on the package information, the first location information, and the first time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11709466
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute acquiring operation information for a network-connected home appliance that is home electronic equipment which is provided in a dwelling house, and is configured to be accessible to a prescribed network and is capable of being controlled via the network, making an estimation as to entering/exiting of a vehicle utilized by a user of the dwelling house into/from a parking lot associated with the dwelling house on the basis of the operation information for the network-connected home appliance in the dwelling house, and issuing, to a management apparatus that manages entering/exiting of the vehicle, an enter/exit instruction for causing the vehicle to enter or exit if entering/exiting of the vehicle into/from the parking lot is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Nakabayashi, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20230196260
    Abstract: A vehicle configured to autonomously deliver a package includes a control unit configured to acquire designation information generated along with designation by a user about an unattended delivery location for delivery of the package, and drive the vehicle to place the package at the unattended delivery location designated by the user when the unattended delivery location is identified by verifying the unattended delivery location based on the acquired designation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11457184
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Nakabayashi, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20220107198
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a first vehicle including a smell detection unit, a smell determination unit configured to determine whether an intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first vehicle position information indicating a position of the first vehicle, and a notification unit configured to notify a second vehicle about the first vehicle position information when the smell determination unit determines that the intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value; and a second vehicle configured to communicate with the first vehicle and including an information output processing unit configured to cause an information output unit to output a warning notifying about a presence of the first vehicle when an approach determination unit determines that first vehicle is positioned less than the predetermined distance from the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11248923
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a first vehicle including a smell detection unit, a smell determination unit configured to determine whether an intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first vehicle position information indicating a position of the first vehicle, and a notification unit configured to notify a second vehicle about the first vehicle position information when the smell determination unit determines that the intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value; and a second vehicle configured to communicate with the first vehicle and including an information output processing unit configured to cause an information output unit to output a warning notifying about a presence of the first vehicle when an approach determination unit determines that first vehicle is positioned less than the predetermined distance from the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11183057
    Abstract: A server is used to provide a smoking vehicle to a user who wants to smoke. The server includes a communication device. The communication device is configured to receive first time information indicating a boarding time and first location information indicating a boarding location from an information terminal of the user. The communication device is configured to receive location information of the vehicle. The communication device is configured to transmit the first time information and the first location information to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11164117
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 11162808
    Abstract: An information providing system includes an information providing device and a vehicle. The information providing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire second information indicating a candidate point matching first information and evaluation of the candidate point and a second information transmitting unit configured to transmit the second information to the vehicle. The first information indicates a condition for searching for a point at which the vehicle stops when the vehicle is stopped and used for resting. The vehicle includes a second information receiving unit configured to receive the second information from the information providing device and an output unit configured to output the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20210311443
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute acquiring operation information for a network-connected home appliance that is home electronic equipment which is provided in a dwelling house, and is configured to be accessible to a prescribed network and is capable of being controlled via the network, making an estimation as to entering/exiting of a vehicle utilized by a user of the dwelling house into/from a parking lot associated with the dwelling house on the basis of the operation information for the network-connected home appliance in the dwelling house, and issuing, to a management apparatus that manages entering/exiting of the vehicle, an enter/exit instruction for causing the vehicle to enter or exit if entering/exiting of the vehicle into/from the parking lot is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210312822
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the disclosure of the present application includes a controller that is configured to acquire landing information about landing of a flying object on a landing platform that is provided on a housing facility for housing the flying object, the landing platform being where the flying object lands when the flying object is to be housed in the housing facility, the landing platform being movable between a stored state of being stored in an inner space separated by an outer wall of the housing facility and a protruding state of protruding from the outer wall of the housing facility, and issue a command for controlling the landing platform to be in the stored state, based on the landing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210304241
    Abstract: An information processor includes a control unit configured to: acquire a store visit behavior, related to a visit to a member store belonging to a commercial accumulation, of a user of a vehicle parked in a parking lot associated with the commercial accumulation and the commercial accumulation having a plurality of the member stores; calculate the number of visited stores based on the store visit behavior, the number of visited stores being the number of member stores visited by the user; determine a preferential service to be offered to the user regarding use of the parking lot, the preferential service being determined in such a manner that a level of the preferential service increases as the number of visited stores by the user increases; and perform a preferential treatment process of applying the preferential service to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20210281804
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA
  • Patent number: 11105650
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20200273334
    Abstract: A server is used to provide a smoking vehicle to a user who wants to smoke. The server includes a communication device. The communication device is configured to receive first time information indicating a boarding time and first location information indicating a boarding location from an information terminal of the user. The communication device is configured to receive location information of the vehicle. The communication device is configured to transmit the first time information and the first location information to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 10685565
    Abstract: A server is used to provide a smoking vehicle to a user who wants to smoke. The server includes a communication device. The communication device is configured to receive first time information indicating a boarding time and first location information indicating a boarding location from an information terminal of the user. The communication device is configured to receive location information of the vehicle. The communication device is configured to transmit the first time information and the first location information to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro