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).

  • Publication number: 20210244326
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to evaluate a driving ability of a driver. A system includes a vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The vehicle detects rush-out of a moving object with a possibility of colliding with the vehicle by a sensor mounted on the vehicle, and also detects that a driver of the vehicle takes an evasive operation for avoiding a collision with the moving object. The information processing apparatus obtains a first time point, which is a point in time at which the vehicle detects the rush-out of the moving object, and a second time point, which is a point in time at which the vehicle detects that the driver takes an evasive action, calculates a reaction time that is a time difference between the first time point and the second time point, and evaluates the driving ability of the driver based on the reaction time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shin SAKURADA, Hikaru GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20210233398
    Abstract: This disclosure achieves smooth traffic. An information processing apparatus has a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining first data representing a driving tendency of a first vehicle; obtaining second data representing a driving tendency of each second vehicle located in the vicinity of the first vehicle; aggregating the second data corresponding to a plurality of the second vehicles thereby to generate reference data; and calculating a degree of similarity between the first data and the reference data thereby to notify a driver of the first vehicle when there is a deviation of a predetermined value or more between the first data and the reference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210221394
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210221395
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210158692
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: communicate with an information communication device associated with a mobile object on which a user rides and configured to output user skill information related to driving skill of the user and a sensor configured to sense other mobile objects inside and around an intersection and output sensing information; derive entering timing at which the mobile object enters the intersection based on the sensing information acquired from the sensor and the user skill information acquired from the information communication device; and output timing information including the entering timing of the mobile object to the information communication device before the mobile object enters the intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Hikaru Gotoh, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Publication number: 20210158703
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: acquire a plurality of pieces of area information from a sensor; acquire, in response to a request signal received from at least one of a user terminal associated with a user of a vehicle and a communication terminal associated with the vehicle, vehicle information including dimension information of the vehicle; and select, from the plurality of pieces of area information based on the vehicle information, area information indicating a position where the vehicle can be parked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Hikaru GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20210140779
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: communicate with an information communication unit associated with a moving object and a traffic information server configured to output traffic information; find a traveling route for the moving object based on: the traffic information acquired from the traffic information server; and specific information associated with at least one of moving object identification information and user identification information, wherein the moving object identification information is used to identify the moving object, the user identification information being used to identify an occupant of the moving object, and the traveling route for the moving object reduces a problem of traffic in the traveling route and provides a reward to the occupant derived based on the specific information; and transmit, to the information communication unit, traveling route information including information about the found traveling route, and reward information including info
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Shin SAKURADA, Hikaru GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20210080277
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hikaru GOTOH
  • Patent number: 10800431
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body configured to be operated by an autonomous driving operation, at least a part of the autonomous driving operation being able to be substituted by a manual driving operation, and (ii) an advice information presentation unit that is disposed inside the vehicle main body and presents advice information, relating to advice about the manual driving operation, to an occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10794722
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body, (ii) an input device that receives a destination input operation, (iii) a first display that displays information on a route to a destination inputted by the input device, the first display being arranged in the vehicle main body, (iv) an acquisition device for acquiring location-related information based on a current location of the vehicle main body or a location of a goal point of the vehicle main body, and (v) a second display that displays the location-related information acquired by the acquisition device, the second display being arranged in the vehicle main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10730448
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display and a moving device. The display is formed in an elongate shape. The moving device moves the display between a lower position at a vehicle width direction central portion of an instrument panel of a vehicle, and an upper position at a vehicle upper side of the lower position. In the lower position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle vertical direction. In the upper position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190219419
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided that includes a location acquiring unit that acquires a location of a vehicle, a counting unit that counts the number of visits to a location acquired by the location acquiring unit, and an information providing unit that, in a case that the number of visits counted by the counting unit exceeds a predetermined number, recommends a user of a vehicle to visit the location or provides a user of a vehicle with information about the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190206253
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190193752
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body configured to be operated by an autonomous driving operation, at least a part of the autonomous driving operation being able to be substituted by a manual driving operation, and (ii) an advice information presentation unit that is disposed inside the vehicle main body and presents advice information, relating to advice about the manual driving operation, to an occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190195651
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body, (ii) an input device that receives a destination input operation, (iii) a first display that displays information on a route to a destination inputted by the input device, the first display being arranged in the vehicle main body, (iv) an acquisition device for acquiring location-related information based on a current location of the vehicle main body or a location of a goal point of the vehicle main body, and (v) a second display that displays the location-related information acquired by the acquisition device, the second display being arranged in the vehicle main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190193644
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display and a moving device. The display is formed in an elongate shape. The moving device moves the display between a lower position at a vehicle width direction central portion of an instrument panel of a vehicle, and an upper position at a vehicle upper side of the lower position. In the lower position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle vertical direction. In the upper position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190193634
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body, (ii) a road width information acquisition unit that acquires road width information relating to a width of a road surrounding the vehicle main body, and (iii) a display unit that displays width positions of the road based on the road width information acquired by the road width information acquisition unit, the display unit being arranged in a compartment of the vehicle main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi