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).

  • Publication number: 20200327471
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor having at least of one piece of hardware. The processor is configured to send a reconfirmation notification on a storage time limit to a client terminal associated with a client who has requested a delivery of a package when a vehicle that is parked or stopped in a predetermined area for providing a vehicle cabin thereof for receiving other person's packages stores the package and when it is within a predetermined time until the storage time limit of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200320472
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine to pack a plurality of first packages, of which the recipients satisfy a predetermined condition, together to obtain a second package and deliver the second package, to determine a representative, who undertakes to receive the second package as a representative and to hand over the first packages to the recipients respectively, from users satisfying the predetermined condition, to make a request for delivery of the second package to the representative, to receive notification indicating that delivery of the first packages is finished from a user terminal of the representative, and to give an incentive at least to the representative in a case where the notification indicating that the delivery is finished is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Akie SAKIYAMA, Yusuke TAKEUCHI, Jun HIOKI, Shinji SASSA, Hiromitsu FUJII, Keita TERUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200320477
    Abstract: The vehicle selection apparatus includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor selects a vehicle for collection and delivery of a package that is a collection and delivery target, based on parking and stopping information that includes information about the positions of a plurality of vehicles parked or stopped in a predetermined region, of which the vehicle cabins are usable for package reception, and information about the parking and stopping of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko YOSHIZAWA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shinichirou FUJII, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Patent number: 10787127
    Abstract: A display system includes a work vehicle, a first camera, a computation device, and a display device. The first camera is attached to one side portion of the work vehicle. The first camera has an optical axis inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction. The first camera captures a first image including a surrounding environment of the work vehicle and a first vehicle body portion. The computation device generates a display image from the first image. The display image includes a surrounding image that depicts the surrounding environment of the work vehicle in a bird's-eye view, and a vehicle image. The vehicle image may combine a vehicle model depicted in the work vehicle and an image of the first vehicle body portion captured by the first camera, or may be an image of the first vehicle body portion. The display device displays the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama, Hiromitsu Fujii, Wei Sun, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kazuki Kure
  • Publication number: 20200279221
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle that delivers a package to a predetermined delivery destination, an in-house device installed inside a house at the predetermined delivery destination, the in-house device being capable of controlling an output device at the predetermined destination, and a processor configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, and to cause the in-house device to issue notification of approach of the vehicle through the output device, in a case where the vehicle approaches within a predetermined range of the predetermined delivery destination. The processor further causes the in-house device to issue notification of arrival of the vehicle through the output device, in a case where the vehicle arrives at the predetermined delivery destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Akie SAKIYAMA, Yusuke TAKEUCHI, Jun HIOKI, Shinji SASSA, Hiromitsu FUJII, Keita TERUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200252557
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200250970
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit configured to store traffic regulation information, which is information on traffic regulations, a control unit configured to determine, based on a video of the surroundings of a vehicle captured by an imaging unit provided in the vehicle and the traffic regulation information stored in the storage unit, whether a subject included in the video has made a traffic violation or not, and in a case where it is determined that the subject has made a traffic violation, identify the traffic violation made by the subject and a violation location at which the traffic violation has been made, and a communication unit configured to transmit the traffic violation and the violation location, identified by the control unit, to a database outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayana TAKESHITA, Yoshihiro OHE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryosuke TANIMURA, Yuhei SUZUKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200247303
    Abstract: A delivery system includes a vehicle including a storage compartment where a temperature can be changed within a predetermined temperature range, the vehicle being configured to deliver an item stored in the storage compartment to a delivery destination, and a processor configured to acquire a relationship between a current time and a scheduled arrival time of the item at the delivery destination, and control a temperature of the storage compartment corresponding to the relationship between the current time and the scheduled arrival time of the item at the delivery destination, such that the item reaches a state of a second temperature at a time of handing-over from a state of a first temperature at a time of delivery request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Akie SAKIYAMA, Yusuke TAKEUCHI, Jun HIOKI, Shinji SASSA, Hiromitsu FUJII, Keita TERUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200250973
    Abstract: In a traffic management system including a vehicle and a database, the vehicle transmits emergency vehicle information including position information of the vehicle to the database when an emergency vehicle is detected from an image which is captured by an imaging unit, and the database stores the emergency vehicle information transmitted from the vehicle. The traffic management system further includes an information processing device. The information processing device predicts a traveling route on which the emergency vehicle is to travel based on the emergency vehicle information stored in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OHE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryosuke TANIMURA, Yuhei SUZUKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200250443
    Abstract: In a traffic management system including a plurality of vehicles and a server, each vehicle is configured to generate an image including a traffic sign during traveling, and transmit, to the server, the image including the traffic sign, and the server is configured to compare the image of the traffic sign transmitted from each vehicle with reference traffic sign images, accumulate a plurality of evaluation results of evaluating visibility of the traffic sign, and based on the accumulated plurality of evaluation results, determine a state of the traffic sign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei SUZUKI, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryosuke Tanimura, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200247404
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire vehicle identification information for identifying another vehicle included in a surrounding image of a vehicle which is captured by an imaging unit based on the surrounding image and to evaluate a driving risk level of the other vehicle based on a traveling state of the other vehicle and a communication unit configured to transmit dangerous vehicle information including the vehicle identification information and the driving risk level of the other vehicle to a database outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200250594
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a movable object that operates as a movable shop after business hours of a predetermined shop; and a control unit that executes acquiring product information, the product information being information relevant to a plurality of foodstuffs loaded in the movable object, each of the plurality of foodstuffs being a product of the predetermined shop and being discounted due to an expiration date, and controlling a route of the movable object based on the product information. The control unit controls the route of the movable object, based on a ratio of kinds of the plurality of foodstuffs loaded in the movable object, as the product information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Akie SAKIYAMA, Yusuke TAKEUCHI, Jun HIOKI, Shinji SASSA, Hiromitsu FUJII, Keita TERUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190098256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and a first transmission unit. The generation unit generates parameter information that shows states of a user. The first transmission unit transmits the generated parameter information through a network to an information processing apparatus of a communication partner capable of generating an image that reflects the state of the user on the basis of the parameter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 10182209
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and a first transmission unit. The generation unit generates parameter information that shows states of a user. The first transmission unit transmits the generated parameter information through a network to an information processing apparatus of a communication partner capable of generating an image that reflects the state of the user on the basis of the parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 10158829
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and a first transmission unit. The generation unit generates parameter information that shows states of a user. The first transmission unit transmits the generated parameter information through a network to an information processing apparatus of a communication partner capable of generating an image that reflects the state of the user on the basis of the parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180199008
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and a first transmission unit. The generation unit generates parameter information that shows states of a user. The first transmission unit transmits the generated parameter information through a network to an information processing apparatus of a communication partner capable of generating an image that reflects the state of the user on the basis of the parameter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180079361
    Abstract: A display system includes a work vehicle, a first camera, a computation device, and a display device. The first camera is attached to one side portion of the work vehicle. The first camera has an optical axis inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction. The first camera captures a first image including a surrounding environment of the work vehicle and a first vehicle body portion. The computation device generates a display image from the first image. The display image includes a surrounding image that depicts the surrounding environment of the work vehicle in a bird's-eye view, and a vehicle image. The vehicle image may combine a vehicle model depicted in the work vehicle and an image of the first vehicle body portion captured by the first camera, or may be an image of the first vehicle body portion. The display device displays the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMASHITA, Hajime ASAMA, Hiromitsu FUJII, Wei SUN, Takashi TSUKAMOTO, Kazuki KURE
  • Patent number: 9678608
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a touch panel display. The touch panel display may include one or more sensors for detecting an input operation on the touch panel display. The input operation may correspond to bending the touch panel display. The apparatus may include circuitry configured to determine a distribution pattern corresponding to sensor values and coordinates output when the input operation is detected. The circuitry may determine, based on the distribution pattern, one or more features of the bending of the touch panel display. The circuitry may execute a predetermined function or process corresponding to the features of the bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communication Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Fujii, Kentaro Ida
  • Publication number: 20160299604
    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to determine, based on an output of a sensor, that an instruction object is within a predetermined distance of a surface of a display. The circuitry may be configured to determine, based the sensor output, a grip pattern corresponding to a position of one or more of a finger and a thumb on a user's hand with respect to the display surface. The circuitry may be configured to execute a predetermined function or process based on the determined grip pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro IDA, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Patent number: 9310925
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a touch panel display having one or more sensors for detecting an input operation on the touch panel display, the input operation corresponding to a bending operation whereby the touch panel display is bent and/or a touch operation whereby an instruction object contacts a surface of the touch panel display. The apparatus includes circuitry configured to detect, when the bending operation is detected, a presence of a stripe pattern based on sensor values output when the bending operation is detected. The circuitry determines, when the stripe pattern is detected, one or more features of the detected stripe pattern, and based on the one or more features of the detected stripe pattern, determines whether the detected stripe pattern matches a predetermined pattern stored in a memory. The circuitry executes a predetermined function or process corresponding to the predetermined pattern when the detected stripe pattern matches the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Fujii, Kentaro Ida