Patents by Inventor Fumihiro NASU

Fumihiro NASU 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: 20250010886
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an autonomous driving device and a navigation device. A control device for the vehicle is configured to display on the navigation device an evaluation window for evaluating a driver assistance function performed by the autonomous driving device. The control device is configured to adjust a parameter that is used when the autonomous driving device performs the driver assistance function, based on an input operation from a driver to the evaluation window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumihiro NASU, Wataru Minoura, Yoshiki Terashima, Yoshiaki Motoyasu
  • Publication number: 20250010859
    Abstract: A safe-driving assist system is equipped in a vehicle including a drive recorder. The safe-driving assist system includes a control device and an informing device. The control device executes acquiring an image captured by the drive recorder, detecting a peripheral vehicle shown in the acquired image, determining whether a driver sign is displayed on the detected peripheral vehicle, and outputting a warning signal when the peripheral vehicle on which the driver sign is displayed has been detected. The informing device informs a driver about existence of the peripheral vehicle on which the driver sign is displayed, when the warning signal output by the control device has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru Minoura, Masatoshi Hayashi, Yutaro Imamura, Fumihiro Nasu, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takehiko Hasimoto
  • Publication number: 20250012586
    Abstract: In a navigation system, a data center and a plurality of vehicles are connected via a communication network. The data center accepts specific section information, which can identify a specific section for which the capturing of road conditions is requested, from a capturing requester. The data center proposes capturing-requested routes, each of which goes through a specific section, to a user who performed a route search with a destination set using a navigation device, based on the specific section information. The data center stores, in a storage device, a video that was uploaded by a user, that was captured by a dashcam while the vehicle was traveling in the specific section, and that shows the road conditions of the specific section, along with capturing position information that can identify the position where the video was captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru Minoura, Masatoshi Hayashi, Yutaro Imamura, Fumihiro Nasu, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takehiko Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240424989
    Abstract: An image providing apparatus is connected to a plurality of vehicles each including a drive recorder and a plurality of information input apparatuses via a communication network. The image providing apparatus receives and stores data of a video image captured by the drive recorder from the plurality of vehicles and in a storage apparatus. The image providing apparatus receives information for identifying a vehicle of a user and a condition for a wanted image from the information input apparatus, the information and the condition being input to the information input apparatus by the user. The image providing apparatus extracts and provides, from among a plurality of the data of the video images stored in the storage apparatus and for the user, an image that the vehicle of the user is viewed in and matches the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240416930
    Abstract: A failure notification system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging device, a processing device, and a transmission device. The processing device acquires video data of a preceding vehicle captured by the imaging device. The processing device performs failure determination based on the acquired video data. As a result of the failure determination by the processing device, when a failure of a brake light of the preceding vehicle is detected, the processing device causes the transmission device to transmit information indicating that the brake light is failed to a reception device of the preceding vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240412636
    Abstract: In a safe driving support system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center stores a position of a first vehicle of which a G sensor detects that behavior of the vehicle has been disturbed when caution information is received from the first vehicle as a caution-needed spot in a storage device. The data center transmits data of a caution image extracted from data of images in a predetermined period before the caution information has been received out of the data of the images captured by a drive recorder of the first vehicle to a second vehicle approaching the caution-needed spot when the caution information is received. The display of the second vehicle having received the data of the caution image attracts attention by displaying the caution image before the second vehicle arrives at the caution-needed spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240412523
    Abstract: An information providing device and an information providing method are provided. Processing circuitry receives, from a first vehicle, a piece of video data related to the moment the first vehicle passed an occurrence site. The first vehicle captures a piece of video data by a dashboard camera when passing the occurrence site of a traffic event requiring cautious driving. The processing circuitry extracts a piece of image data representing a situation of the occurrence site from the video related to the piece of video data, and transmits the piece of image data to the second vehicle. When the second vehicle reaches a notification location, a display device of the second vehicle displays an image related to the piece of image data in order to issue an alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240377214
    Abstract: In a navigation system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center receives video data and stores the received video data in a storage device, the received video data being data of a video captured by a drive recorder and provided from a first vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the first vehicle having a destination that is set such that route guidance until arrival at the destination cannot be accomplished by the navigation device, the first vehicle having arrived at the destination. The data center transmits the video data stored in the storage device to a second vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the second vehicle having the destination set in the navigation device. The navigation device of the second vehicle performs guidance to the destination by replaying the received video after the route guidance around the destination is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240227839
    Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru MINOURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yoshiaki MOTOYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240132094
    Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru MINOURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yoshiaki MOTOYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220163345
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a controller configured to perform: obtaining a current location of a user; obtaining a destination of the user; outputting guidance to the destination; obtaining information corresponding to the destination; determining, based on the destination and the current location, that the user has arrived at the destination; and switching from outputting the guidance to the destination to outputting the information corresponding to the destination, when the user has arrived at the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumihiro NASU, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Kazuhito BABA, Shinichiro Futakuchi, Miku TANAKA