Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Majima

Hiroshi Majima 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: 11847374
    Abstract: In a presentation control, another presentation request of another content is accepted from another application while presenting a content of one application, which content is preferentially presented is arbitrated based on a rule definition including: an attribute of the content that defines either a cancellation for withdrawing the presentation request or an on-standby without withdrawing the presentation request; and a constraint equation that defines an exception rule for defining a setting of the content that has lost arbitration as either the on-standby or the cancellation; and one of the contents arbitrated is presented to a presentation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Kawashima, Shigeo Katoh, Kentaro Teshima, Keisuke Okamoto, Kazuya Ohtake, Hiroshi Majima, Kazuki Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 11694656
    Abstract: A display control device provided at a vehicle and including a processor, a first display section, a second display section adjacent to the first display section, and a third display section adjacent to the second display section in a different direction from the first display section. The processor being configured to: control the first display section, the second display section, and the third display section; acquire notification information to be notified to a driver of the vehicle; and execute an animation such that the notification information currently being displayed on one of the first display section or the third display section is displayed on the second display section and then displayed on another of the first display section or the third display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya Ohtake, Rio Mizuno, Kazuki Sasamoto, Hiroshi Majima
  • Publication number: 20230106111
    Abstract: A display control device provided at a vehicle and including a processor, a first display section, a second display section adjacent to the first display section, and a third display section adjacent to the second display section in a different direction from the first display section. The processor being configured to: control the first display section, the second display section, and the third display section; acquire notification information to be notified to a driver of the vehicle; and execute an animation such that the notification information currently being displayed on one of the first display section or the third display section is displayed on the second display section and then displayed on another of the first display section or the third display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya OHTAKE, Rio MIZUNO, Kazuki SASAMOTO, Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11545112
    Abstract: A display control device provided at a vehicle and including a processor, a first display section, a second display section adjacent to the first display section, and a third display section adjacent to the second display section in a different direction from the first display section. The processor being configured to: control the first display section, the second display section, and the third display section; acquire notification information to be notified to a driver of the vehicle; and execute an animation such that the notification information currently being displayed on one of the first display section or the third display section is displayed on the second display section and then displayed on another of the first display section or the third display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya Ohtake, Rio Mizuno, Kazuki Sasamoto, Hiroshi Majima
  • Patent number: 11385065
    Abstract: A route retrieval apparatus includes a route retrieval unit configured to perform route retrieval from a departure place to a destination, the route retrieval retrieving a route using one or two or more pieces of moving means among a plurality of pieces of moving means including sharing type moving means in which a vehicle with a relatively small riding capacity is used by unspecified people, and perform the route retrieval from the departure place to the destination, the route retrieval retrieving a route including usage of the sharing type moving means, such that the usage of the sharing type moving means is restricted to at least one of usage from the departure place or a periphery of the departure place and usage for reaching the destination or a periphery of the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Majima, Nariaki Amano, Yukiya Yamane, Kazuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20220121409
    Abstract: In a presentation control, another presentation request of another content is accepted from another application while presenting a content of one application, which content is preferentially presented is arbitrated based on a rule definition including: an attribute of the content that defines either a cancellation for withdrawing the presentation request or an on-standby without withdrawing the presentation request; and a constraint equation that defines an exception rule for defining a setting of the content that has lost arbitration as either the on-standby or the cancellation; and one of the contents arbitrated is presented to a presentation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki KAWASHIMA, Shigeo KATOH, Kentaro TESHIMA, Keisuke OKAMOTO, Kazuya OHTAKE, Hiroshi MAJIMA, Kazuki SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220121408
    Abstract: A state of an external device is acquired. It is arbitrated which content is preferentially presented, based on a rule definition including a constraint equation according to a presentation request of the content obtained from an application and the state of the external device acquired in the acquiring of the state. A presentation of the content is controlled according to an arbitration result performed in the arbitrating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki KAWASHIMA, Shigeo KATOH, Kentaro TESHIMA, Rio MIZUNO, Kazuya OHTAKE, Hiroshi MAJIMA, Kazuki SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220068040
    Abstract: An information providing system includes: a server including a first processor configured to provide an excursion pass that allows a user to use a plurality of transportation units to a terminal of the user, estimate a transportation unit used by the user among the plurality of transportation units, and a usage section of the transportation unit, calculate allocation of sales of the excursion pass to each operator providing the plurality of transportation units based on an estimation result of the transportation unit and the usage section, and output information regarding the allocation to each operator; and the terminal including a second processor configured to output predetermined information to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220067592
    Abstract: An information providing system includes: a server including a first processor configured to output predetermined information to a terminal of a user; and a terminal including a second processor configured to cause a display to display information acquired from the server, wherein the first processor is configured to predict a transportation unit to be used by the user, and output information regarding a usage method for the predicted transportation unit to the terminal, and the second processor is configured to cause the display to display the information regarding the usage method for the transportation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220067593
    Abstract: An information providing system includes: a server including a first processor configured to provide an excursion pass that allows a user to use a plurality of transportation units to a terminal of the user; and a terminal including a second processor configured to output predetermined information to the server. The first processor is configured to: estimate a transportation unit used by the user among the plurality of transportation units, and a usage section of the transportation unit; acquire evaluation information indicating evaluation of the user with respect to the transportation unit from the terminal; calculate allocation of sales of the excursion pass to each operator providing the plurality of transportation units based on an estimation result of the transportation unit and the usage section, and the evaluation information; and output information regarding the allocation to each operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20210323470
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor being configured to: gather a captured image from an imaging section that captures images of outside a vehicle; in a case in which an event notifiable to a driver of the vehicle has been detected based on peripheral information relating to a periphery of the vehicle, generate an interruption image including a captured image relating to the event and information indicating a direction in which the event has arisen relative to the vehicle; and perform processing to display the generated interruption image in a notification region configuring part of a display region of a display device that is visible to the driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Rio MIZUNO, Kazuya OHTAKE, Hiroshi MAJIMA, Kazuki SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210327396
    Abstract: A display control device provided at a vehicle and including a processor, a first display section, a second display section adjacent to the first display section, and a third display section adjacent to the second display section in a different direction from the first display section. The processor being configured to: control the first display section, the second display section, and the third display section; acquire notification information to be notified to a driver of the vehicle; and execute an animation such that the notification information currently being displayed on one of the first display section or the third display section is displayed on the second display section and then displayed on another of the first display section or the third display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya OHTAKE, Rio MIZUNO, Kazuki SASAMOTO, Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10967869
    Abstract: A road surface condition estimation apparatus (1) is provided with a collecting device (111) for collecting, from vehicle (2), behavior information relating to a behavior of the vehicle; a determining device (112) for determining on the basis of the behavior information whether or not an abnormality condition is satisfied, the abnormality condition being set on the basis of a specific behavior that is expected to be taken by the vehicle when the vehicle encounters a road surface abnormality; and an estimating device (112) for estimating a condition of the road surface on the basis of a determined result of the determining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Hiroshi Majima, Masaya Fujimori, Takeo Moriai, Tatsuya Obuchi
  • Publication number: 20210063196
    Abstract: An abnormal section that is a road section having an abnormal road condition is detected out of respective road sections, based on vehicle information from a plurality of vehicles. Out of roads in a displayed map, a small number of abnormal sections-part that has a number of consecutive abnormal sections (a continuous distance where the road condition is abnormal) less than a reference value is provided with state information in a first display mode. A large number of abnormal sections-part that has the number of consecutive abnormal sections equal to or greater than the reference value is provided with the state information in a second display mode that is different from the first display mode. The small number of abnormal sections-part and the large number of abnormal sections-part provided with the state information are displayed in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Tatsuya Obuchi, Masaya Fujimori, Takeo Moriai, Hiroshi Majima
  • Publication number: 20210064891
    Abstract: An object is to enable a user to more readily design a maintenance plan according to the type of an abnormality of road. A first abnormal section that is a road section having a road condition of a first abnormality and a second abnormal section that is a road section having the road condition of a second abnormality that is different from the first abnormality are detected, based on vehicle information from a plurality of vehicles. Out of roads in a displayed map, the first abnormal section is provided with the state information in a first display mode, and the second abnormal section is provided with the state information in a second display mode that is different from the first display mode. The first abnormal section and the second abnormal section provided with the state information are displayed in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Tatsuya OBUCHI, Masaya FUJIMORI, Takeo MORIAI, Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200132480
    Abstract: A route retrieval apparatus includes a route retrieval unit configured to perform route retrieval from a departure place to a destination, the route retrieval retrieving a route using one or two or more pieces of moving means among a plurality of pieces of moving means including sharing type moving means in which a vehicle with a relatively small riding capacity is used by unspecified people, and perform the route retrieval from the departure place to the destination, the route retrieval retrieving a route including usage of the sharing type moving means, such that the usage of the sharing type moving means is restricted to at least one of usage from the departure place or a periphery of the departure place and usage for reaching the destination or a periphery of the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Nariaki AMANO, Yukiya YAMANE, Kazuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200132494
    Abstract: On a basis of history information of route search results using particular types of transportation, a first type of rates of the particular types of transportation being used in route candidates of each of route search results and a second type of rates of the particular types of transportation being used in route candidates each selected by a user from among the route candidates provided in each of the route search results are calculated on a per-type of transportation basis and on a per-combination of departure point area and destination area basis. Data is generated, on the per-combination of departure point area and destination area basis, where the departure point areas and the destination areas are associated with, on the per-type of transportation basis, the at least one type of rates from among the first type of rates and the second type of rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Nariaki AMANO, Yukiya YAMANE, Kazuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200132481
    Abstract: An information providing device includes: a route search unit configured to search a route from a departure place to a destination place, the route using one or more of a plurality of movement means; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit of a user terminal to display a route search result by the route search unit, in accordance with a display specification, the route search result including one or a plurality of route candidates, wherein a first display specification includes at least one of information of whether to display a particular route candidate and a display order of the particular route candidate in the plurality of route candidates, the first display specification is determined based on a unique condition that is specified for particular movement means, and the particular route candidate is a route candidate that uses the particular movement means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Nariaki AMANO, Yukiya YAMANE, Kazuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200132499
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus is configured to perform communication with a user terminal or installed in the user terminal and includes one or more processors configured to perform a route search for a route from a departure point to a destination using one or more types of transportation from among a plurality of types of transportation; display on a display unit of the user terminal one or more route candidates obtained from the route search; and, in a manner of associating with a route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using two or more types of transportation from among the plurality of types of transpiration, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation from among the two or more types of transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Nariaki AMANO, Yukiya YAMANE, Kazuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200134765
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to communicate with a portable terminal of a user or mounted on the portable terminal. The information processing device includes a processor configured to cause a display device included in the portable terminal to display ticket information in response to a handling by the user, the ticket information corresponding to a ticket for transportation, wherein: an operation plan of the transportation is previously specified, the operation plan of the transportation including an operation route and an operation time of the transportation; the ticket expires while the transportation is operating; and the processor is configured to permit the display device to display the ticket information until a predetermined time elapses after the ticket expires, and prohibit the display device from displaying the ticket information after the predetermined time has elapsed since the ticket expires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAJIMA, Nariaki AMANO, Yukiya YAMANE, Kazuki KATO