Patents by Inventor Hikaru Gotoh
Hikaru Gotoh 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).
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Patent number: 11912276Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
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Patent number: 11904879Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
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Patent number: 11891079Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
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Publication number: 20230419833Abstract: A control device includes a communication interface that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family. A processor of the control device searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication interface as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result acquired, and causes the communication interface to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui SUGIE, Hikaru GOTOH, Hiroki KIDO, Shuichi SAWADA, Genshi KUNO, Katsuhiro OHARA
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Patent number: 11804134Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication unit as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result obtained, and causes the communication unit to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui Sugie, Hikaru Gotoh, Hiroki Kido, Shuichi Sawada, Genshi Kuno, Katsuhiro Ohara
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Publication number: 20230259847Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller that manages mobile objects that deliver articles. The controller determines a mobile object to allocate for delivery while taking into consideration the possibility that maintenance on the mobile object will become necessary during delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Matsushita, Hiroe Fukui, Naoki Uenoyama, Hikaru Gotoh, Satoshi Komamine, Takanori Sasano
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Publication number: 20230252427Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to plan maintenance of a returnable container based on information about a condition of the returnable container, the returnable container being configured to store a delivery item inside.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Matsushita, Hiroe Fukui, Naoki Uenoyama, Hikaru Gotoh, Satoshi Komamine, Takanori Sasano
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Publication number: 20230252402Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a storage mobile object that is configured to store a stored mobile object. The stored mobile object includes a first mobile object that is stored in the storage mobile object and a second mobile object that is not stored in the storage mobile object. The controller is configured to instruct the storage mobile object to transport the first mobile object while maintaining the first mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Matsushita, Hiroe Fukui, Naoki Uenoyama, Hikaru Gotoh, Satoshi Komamine, Takanori Sasano
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Publication number: 20230251102Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a travel route for a mobile object based on information about people in a range of influence that includes the travel route.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto MATSUSHITA, Hiroe FUKUI, Naoki UENOYAMA, Hikaru GOTOH, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Takanori SASANO
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Publication number: 20230196491Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller that manages mobile objects that deliver articles. The controller determines and outputs a plan for maintenance of at least one target mobile object, which is a mobile object that is out for delivery among the mobile objects and is in a problematic state for delivery, based on information about the target mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto MATSUSHITA, Hiroe Fukui, Naoki Uenoyama, Hikaru Gotoh, Satoshi Komamine, Takanori Sasano
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Publication number: 20220254255Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication unit as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result obtained, and causes the communication unit to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui SUGIE, Hikaru GOTOH, Hiroki KIDO, Shuichi SAWADA, Genshi KUNO, Katsuhiro OHARA
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Publication number: 20220253028Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire first usage of a power source of a vehicle that supplies energy used in the vehicle in a predetermined period in which an occupant takes refuge by staying in the vehicle and to determine a supply of the power source which is able to be supplied to the vehicle based on the acquired first usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui SUGIE, Hikaru GOTOH, Hiroki KIDO, Shuichi SAWADA, Genshi KUNO, Katsuhiro OHARA
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Patent number: 11408748Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a storage unit configured to store congestion information for each road link by time zone; and a control unit configured to obtain information about a departure place, a destination and an arrival deadline from a user, and to determine a route connecting between the departure place and the destination and a movement schedule including a departure time and an estimated arrival time; wherein the control unit determines the movement schedule that allow a user to arrive at the destination by the arrival deadline and to move through the route in a required time shorter than a predetermined value set for each route.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Gotoh
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Publication number: 20220230100Abstract: The control device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a terminal device used by a user; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating an environment of each of a plurality of areas is registered by using condition data indicating a condition of a surrounding environment when the user stays in a vehicle as a search key, that selects at least one area among the areas as a parking area based on an acquired search result, and that causes the communication unit to transmit proposition data that proposes the user to park the vehicle in the parking area that is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui SUGIE, Hikaru GOTOH, Hiroki KIDO, Shuichi SAWADA, Genshi KUNO, Katsuhiro OHARA
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Publication number: 20220230133Abstract: A server device includes: a communication unit; and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. Based on a captured image of a ground surface that is captured by aerial imaging, the control unit sends a flying body an instruction to airlift goods to a waiting point that is reachable from a parking point of a vehicle, and sends information on a travel route from the parking point to the waiting point to an information processing device corresponding to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui SUGIE, Hikaru GOTOH, Hiroki KIDO, Shuichi SAWADA, Genshi KUNO, Katsuhiro OHARA
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Patent number: 11270587Abstract: A vehicle on-board communication device is provided with a communication unit that transmits and receives via wireless communication between a host vehicle and other vehicles located in the vicinity thereof intention information relating to an intention of a vehicle occupant, an instruction unit that receives transmission instructions from an occupant of the host vehicle and causes the intention information to be transmitted to the communication unit, and a notification unit that notifies the occupant of the host vehicle about the intention information of an occupant of another vehicle received by the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
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Publication number: 20210370964Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technology for preventing a smooth flow of traffic from being hindered by a vehicle that is unnecessarily stopped on a road. An information processing device detects that display of a traffic light is switched from a first signal instructing a vehicle to stop to a second signal allowing the vehicle to proceed. When the display of the traffic light is switched from the first signal to the second signal, the information processing device transmits a first command to a mobile terminal carried by a driver of a first vehicle that is stopped before the traffic light, the first command instructing that a first notification for urging the driver to start moving the first vehicle be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Hikaru GOTOH, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210289331Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprises a controller configured to perform: acquiring traveling-related data related to traveling of two or more vehicles including a first vehicle and a second vehicle; determining, based on the traveling-related data, that the first vehicle is in any one of a plurality of predefined situations; identifying, based on the traveling-related data, the second vehicle that is located in a vicinity of the first vehicle and is involved in the determined situation; determining, based on the determined situation and a preference associated with the second vehicle, an image to be transmitted to the second vehicle; and transmitting the image to the second vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210253099Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210256851Abstract: A vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane is allowed to smoothly merge into a main lane. An information processing apparatus includes a controller is configured to: identify a second vehicle traveling on a main lane behind a cutting-in position at which a first vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane cuts in; and perform at least any one of notifying the first vehicle of first guidance that prompts the first vehicle to merge into the main lane at a far end of the acceleration lane, and notifying the second vehicle of second guidance that prompts the second vehicle to assist the first vehicle in merging into the main lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Hikaru GOTOH, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA