Patents by Inventor Hiromitsu Fujii

Hiromitsu 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).

  • Patent number: 11953906
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of a recipient of a package, acquire information indicating a location for placing the package in a vehicle, and present a depositor of the package with the information indicating the location for placing the package and the information indicating the attribute of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Shin Sakurada, Tomokazu Maya, Hiroyuki Bandai, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20240084382
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20240075952
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a relaxation facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire stress information regarding a worker working at a workplace, and command the vehicle to move to the workplace based on the acquired stress information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240070572
    Abstract: A notification method includes: determining candidate destinations for a vehicle from among a plurality of facilities requesting for electric power, using first information about the vehicle and second information about the plurality of facilities; and transmitting the candidate destinations to a user terminal of the vehicle. The first information includes a power generation type of an electric power stored in a power storage device included in the vehicle. The second information includes a power generation type of the electric power requested by each of the plurality of facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Shigeki KINOMURA, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240067225
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a cafeteria facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire dispatch destination information including a designated location and a designated time period, and command the vehicle to be dispatched to the designated location in the designated time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240070581
    Abstract: An information processing method, for an information processing apparatus including a controller, includes a first step, by the controller, of acquiring positional information indicating a change over time in positions of a plurality of users, a second step, by the controller, of predicting a number of the users who will gather at a specific time at a boarding/alighting point to board/alight from a vehicle based on the change over time in the positions of the plurality of users indicated by the positional information, and a third step, by the controller, of determining a vehicle dispatch schedule for the vehicle to the boarding/alighting point based on the number of users predicted to gather at the specific time at the boarding/alighting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Patent number: 11911480
    Abstract: A self-emulsifying composition contains: 70 to 90% by weight of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of ?3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters; 0.5 to 6% by weight of water; 1 to 29% by weight of a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester as an emulsifier (optionally including a polyoxyl castor oil, and not including lecithin); and lecithin in an amount of 3 to 40 parts by weight in relation to 100 parts by weight of ?3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the like. The self-emulsifying composition is excellent in self-emulsifying property, composition dispersibility, emulsion stability, and absorbability, is free from ethanol and polyhydric alcohols or only has such an alcohol added thereto at a reduced concentration, and is useful for foods and pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ito, Hirosato Fujii, Motoo Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20240051580
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate via the communication interface with at least one mobile object that has a changing room. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to the mobile object to move to a specified location by a specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240053755
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate, using the communication interface, with a mobile object having a facility for executing one or more processes in a plurality of processes to be executed sequentially to manufacture a product. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to a first mobile object to travel to a meeting point with a second mobile object for executing a second process that follows a first process to be executed in the first mobile object, the instruction being for delivering the product being manufactured to the second mobile object at the meeting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240054516
    Abstract: A store terminal executes a process including a step S500 for determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step S502 for determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S500) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S502), a step S504 for acquiring a usage time, a step S506 for setting a discount amount, a step S508 for setting a usage fee, and a step S510 for executing a checkout process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240046173
    Abstract: A management support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a manager, and a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each user when each user gets on a vehicle to be operated with multiple users on board to a factory, identify, based on the acquired profile data, that each user has already been on board, upon detecting a user who has not been on board among users scheduled to get on the vehicle, generate proposal data with reference to process data indicating a process of which the detected user is scheduled to be in charge in the factory, the proposal data proposing a schedule change for the process, and transmit the generated proposal data to the terminal apparatus of the manager via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20240044660
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20240046300
    Abstract: A power management system includes: a server that manages a status of reservation for use of a shop by a user who uses an electrically powered vehicle in which a battery is mounted and that performs supply/demand adjustment for power in a power grid connected to the shop; and a power charging/discharging station installed in a parking lot of the shop and connected to the power grid. The server performs the supply/demand adjustment using the battery of the electrically powered vehicle while the battery and the power charging/discharging station are connected to each other after the reservation for the use of the shop is made by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240034173
    Abstract: A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes requesting energy management to a vehicle parked in a parking slot and displaying a remaining time until a parking time limit of the vehicle. Displaying the remaining time includes increasing the remaining time when the vehicle executes the energy management as compared with the remaining time when the vehicle does not execute the energy management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki KINOMURA, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Atsushi OKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Patent number: 11884184
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11889231
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Publication number: 20240029564
    Abstract: A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes determining whether a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient. Further, the parking lot management method further includes at least one of executing a process of prompting at least one vehicle parked in the parking lot to exit when it is determined that a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient, and requesting at least one vehicle electrically connected to a power supply facility to execute energy management when it is determined that the parking space in the parking lot is not insufficient and a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240021082
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus autonomously determines a pick-up location for an on-demand bus. The information processing apparatus has a controller configured to determine a first location that is not predicted to be crowded with people as the pick-up location based on a user's preferred pick-up location and first information related to locations within the operation area of the on-demand bus that are predicted to be crowded with people. The controller of the information processing apparatus selects the first location thus determined as the pick-up location for the on-demand bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Takahiro AOKI, Tsuyoshi OKADA, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240005437
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: transmitting user information to one or more user apparatuses associated with one or more first users, the user information being information related to the one or more first users who intend to board a bus operated on demand from a first point set as a boarding and alighting point for the bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Takahiro AOKI, Tsuyoshi OKADA, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240005614
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is a computer carried by a first user who is arranged to get on an on-demand bus. The information processing apparatus includes a display device and a controller. The controller of the information processing apparatus creates an AR image by superimposing a first virtual image on a first real image obtained by photographing a first real scene at the position corresponding to the pick-up location for the first user in it. The first virtual image is a virtual image of a bus stop. Then, the controller causes the display apparatus to display the AR image thus created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Takahiro AOKI, Tsuyoshi OKADA, Hiromitsu FUJII