Patents by Inventor Eiichi Kusama

Eiichi Kusama 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: 20210247760
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an ADK that creates a driving plan, a VP that carries out vehicle control in accordance with various commands from the ADK, and a vehicle control interface that interfaces between the VP and the ADK. A power supply structure for the ADK is provided independently of a power supply structure for the VP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiichi KUSAMA
  • Publication number: 20200198643
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles, and a server communicable with the one or more vehicles. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a road on which a host vehicle is located. The vehicle or the server determines a degree of difficulty in traveling on the road due to snow cover from the image. The server stores the degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads, and provides information to a client by using the stored degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200193810
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicable with the vehicle. The vehicle acquires a moving image obtained by imaging an oncoming lane during traveling. At least one of a congestion section and a congestion degree of the oncoming lane is determined based on the moving image. The server stores at least one of the congestion section and the congestion degree of the oncoming lane and provides information to a client by using the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200193169
    Abstract: An information processing system is equipped with at least one vehicle and a server that can communicate with the at least one vehicle. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a landscape outside the vehicle, a humidity outside the vehicle, and an imaging position of the image. The vehicle or the server generates floating substance information on an atmospheric floating substance around the vehicle, based on the image and the humidity. The server stores at least one pair of the floating substance information and the imaging position corresponding thereto, and provides information to a client through the use of the at least one pair of the stored floating substance information and the stored imaging position corresponding thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20200191598
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles; and a server configured to communicate with the one or more vehicles, wherein each of the one or more vehicles is configured to generate a first video of a traveling route by capturing an outside scene while traveling, and the server is configured to store a plurality of the first videos generated by the one or more vehicles, generate a second video of a specific route using two or more of the first videos, the specific route being different from the traveling route of each of the plurality of the first videos, and send the second video to a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200189527
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is able to communicate with the vehicle. The server stores weather information indicating the weather. The vehicle receives the weather information from the server and acquires an image in which a scene outside the vehicle is captured when an operating state of an onboard device is not a prescribed operating state corresponding to the weather indicated by the weather information. The vehicle or the server detects the weather from the image. The server updates the weather information to indicate the weather detected from the image when the weather detected from the image and the weather indicated by the weather information do not match and provides information to a client using the updated weather information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20200193147
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicle; and a server that is able to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles performs: generating a moving image in which a person outside the vehicle appears; and transmitting the moving image and an imaging time and an imaging position of the moving image to the server. The server performs: specifying two or more target moving images in which the same person appears out of a plurality of moving images received from the plurality of vehicles; detecting behavior of the person from the two or more target moving images; estimating attribute information of the person based on the detected behavior; and transmitting the estimated attribute information of the person and the imaging time and the imaging position of at least one of the target moving images to a client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200160410
    Abstract: An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. A vehicle generates an image by capturing a plurality of users who share a host vehicle. The vehicle or the server detects an interaction among the users based on the image and, based on a detection result, estimates each user's satisfaction level. The server accumulates data for each user wherein the data indicates an association between an attribute of another user and a user's satisfaction level, estimates a relationship between another user's attribute and a user's satisfaction level based on the accumulated data, preferentially selects, as a candidate, another user who has an attribute that increases the user's satisfaction level from among other users based on the estimated relationship when a service use request is received from a user's terminal device, and sends proposal information to the terminal device wherein the proposal information proposes a ride share with the candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20200160715
    Abstract: An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. Each of the vehicles generates a video obtained by imaging outside scenery in association with a time and transmit the video and position information of a host vehicle at a time when the video is generated to the server. The server detects attribute information of a person in the video from the video and detects position information of the person at the time based on the position information of the host vehicle at the time when the video is generated, when the video and the position information are received from the host vehicle. The server specifies the same person appearing in two or more videos of videos respectively received from the vehicles and transmits the attribute information of the specified person and movement path information including time-series data of the position information of the person to a client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Patent number: 5662348
    Abstract: In a suspension arm formed by press working a plate-shaped member, in a case in which, while a vehicle is traveling, a load is inputted to the suspension arm in a direction intersecting a direction in which the suspension arm swings, at least a region at which a maximum stress is generated is a non-end portion of the plate-shaped member. Accordingly, high rigidity can be ensured without an increase in weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Toru Kawamura, Yukikazu Ueno, Hiroyuki Nishi, Yoshihisa Kato