Patents by Inventor Hiroya Chiba
Hiroya Chiba 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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Publication number: 20250046189Abstract: A management system includes a management server capable of wirelessly communicating with a vehicle in a parking lot, and an alarm provided on or near the vehicle and configured to emit sound or light or both in response to an instruction from the management server. The management server executes control for operating the alarm corresponding to the vehicle when detecting occurrence of an event requiring confirmation of a state of the vehicle via wireless communication with the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro SUGIURA, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Soichiro OURA, Hiroya CHIBA, Ryuji OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20250006049Abstract: The identification system includes a vehicle and an infrastructure device installed in a predetermined area. A first device that is one of the vehicle and the infrastructure device includes an output device configured to output an electromagnetic wave or a sound wave that is not for wireless communication. The second device that is another of the vehicle and the infrastructure device, includes a receiving device configured to receive the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave output from the output device of the first device. The first device is configured to output the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave modulated to indicate an identification code of the first device from the output device. The second device is configured to identify the first device based on the identification code indicated by the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave received via the receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro SUGIURA, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Soichiro OURA, Hiroya CHIBA, Ryuji OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240409087Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an in-vehicle system mounted on a vehicle. The in-vehicle system includes: one or more processors configured to acquire a target trajectory of the vehicle to a destination in a predetermined area; and one or more memories configured to store information of a vehicle parameter contributing to a passing region of the vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to acquire information on a base trajectory that is a trajectory to the destination in the predetermined area and does not depend on the vehicle parameter. The one or more processors are further configured to acquire the target trajectory specific to the vehicle by correcting the base trajectory based on the vehicle parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Takehiko HANADA
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Publication number: 20240404403Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle traveling in a predetermined area is provided. The vehicle control system acquires vehicle information indicating a position of the vehicle. The vehicle control system sets a determination region around the vehicle based on the vehicle information. The vehicle control system acquires an image captured by an infrastructure camera that is installed outside the vehicle and images a situation of the predetermined area. The vehicle control system determines whether or not a target is present in the determination region based on the image captured by the infrastructure camera. The vehicle control system decelerates the vehicle when the target is present in the determination region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Yuhei OKA, Daisuke KAKUMA, Kento IWAHORI
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Publication number: 20240400102Abstract: The self-propelled conveyance system acquires first spatial information of the vehicle by a first sensor and acquires second spatial information of the vehicle by the second sensor having a modality different from that of the first sensor. The processor of the self-propelled conveyance system calculates a first position of the vehicle in a predetermined coordinate system based on the first spatial information and calculates a second position of the vehicle in the predetermined coordinate system based on the second spatial information. Then, the processor determines a deviation between the first position and the second position and generates a control instruction for the vehicle based on at least one of the first position and the second position on condition that the deviation is within an allowable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Daisuke KAKUMA, Kento IWAHORI
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Patent number: 12145464Abstract: An ECU controls a vehicle including a power reception unit that can wirelessly receive electric power from a power feeding facility placed on a travel road. The ECU includes a memory in which a user-desired condition is stored, the user-desired condition being a condition under which a user of the vehicle desires on-road power reception, the on-road power reception being power reception from the power feeding facility placed on the travel road, and a processor connected to the memory. When a physical condition for power feeding from the power feeding facility to the vehicle is satisfied and when the user-desired condition stored in the memory is not satisfied, the processor controls the power reception unit to suppress on-road power reception.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Kazuhisa Matsuda, Fumihiko Nakamura, Manabu Handa, Hiroya Chiba
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Publication number: 20240365010Abstract: In a recognition processing of a vehicle included in a camera image acquired by a camera installed in a closed space, the vehicle recognition system determines whether a shutter provided at an entrance/exit for a vehicle in the closed space is opened or not based on opening/closing information on the shutter. Then, the vehicle recognition system determines whether or not an outside illuminance is higher than an inside illuminance based on information on the outside illuminance and information on the inside illuminance. Furthermore, the vehicle recognition system performs brightness correction processing for correcting brightness of the camera image when it is determined that the shutter is opened and the outside illuminance is higher than the inside illuminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki EGASHIRA, Hiroya Chiba, Daisuke Kakuma, Yuhei Oka, Tatsuya Sugano
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Publication number: 20240355123Abstract: A vehicle location recognition system obtains vehicle model information of a target vehicle and a predicted location of a target vehicle in a parking space. The vehicle location recognition system also retrieves from a database a reflection possibility area on the vehicle body of the target vehicle identified by the vehicle line information and the predicted location. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system assimilates the reflection possibility area on the vehicle body of the target vehicle to the surrounding area surrounding the potentially reflective area in an image input from a camera. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system identifies the vehicle location of the target vehicle by image recognition on an image in which the reflection possibility area is assimilated into the surrounding area. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system updates the predicted location based on the vehicle location of the target vehicle identified by image recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Yuhei OKA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Kazuki EGASHIRA, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroya CHIBA
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Publication number: 20240304047Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a management system for managing a vehicle having a remote activation function. The management system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry activates the vehicle and acquire remaining battery level of the vehicle at check timing while the vehicle is parked and performs a restoration promoting process for restoring the remaining battery level in a case where the remaining battery level is equal to or lower than a threshold value. The threshold value is set to a value larger than a remote activation lower limit that is a lower limit of the remaining battery level necessary for remote activation of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Daisuke KAKUMA
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Publication number: 20240300474Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle having a motor and an engine. The system executes the following processes. The first process is determining whether a situation which the vehicle is currently facing is a situation in which high accuracy is required for control of driving of the vehicle or not. The second process is selecting only an EV mode under a situation in which high accuracy is required for the control. The third process is selecting an engine activation mode only under a situation in which high accuracy is not required for the control. The EV mode is a mode in which the engine is stopped and the vehicle is driven by the motor. The engine activation mode is a mode in which the engine is activated for at least one of power generation for charging a battery and driving the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Takehiko HANADA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Noriyuki TSURUOKA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Amane YAJIMA, Yuki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240257642Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system for managing movement of vehicles in a predetermined area including a parking lot, a pick-up and drop-off area, and a baggage delivery area. The system comprises one or more processors configured to execute a parking process of parking a vehicle stopping at the pick-up and drop-off area in the parking lot. The parking process includes the following first to third processes. The first process is checking whether or not there is a checked baggage scheduled to be collected from the vehicle at the baggage delivery area. The second process is moving the vehicle from the pick-up and drop-off area to the baggage delivery area when there is the checked baggage. The third process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot in response to the checked baggage being collected from the vehicle after the vehicle is moved to the baggage delivery area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya Sugano, Ryuji Okamura, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Daisuke Kakuma
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Publication number: 20240255963Abstract: A vehicle unloading management device includes a processor. When an unload request for unloading a vehicle being loaded in an airport parking lot is received from a passenger of an airplane whose arrival destination is an airport, the processor sets a time period for performing automated unload of the passenger's vehicle. In the process of setting the time period, when at least two unload requests are received from at least two vehicles and time periods for performing automated unload of the at least two vehicles overlap, the processor predicts an arrival order at the airport parking lot of a passengers corresponding to the at least two unload requests with overlapping the time periods. And the processor determines an order for automated unload of the at least two vehicles according to the arrival order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya Sugano, Ryuji Okamura, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Daisuke Kakuma
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Publication number: 20240257639Abstract: An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-theft necessity for a loaded vehicle and a load scheduled vehicle for each vehicle. The processor calculates a degree of theft resistance for each parking spot based on a map information of the parking lot, a location information of the loaded vehicle, and a location information of the load scheduled vehicle. The processor determines an automated parking location of the loaded vehicle and the load scheduled vehicle based on the degree of anti-theft necessity and degree of theft resistance such that a vehicle with a higher degree of anti-theft necessity is parked in the parking spot with a higher degree of theft resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Ryuji OKAMURA, Noriyuki TSURUOKA, Daisuke KAKUMA
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Publication number: 20240257286Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a parking management system for managing parking of vehicles in a parking lot of a specific facility including a pick-up and drop-off area. The parking management system comprises one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute, when a vehicle enters the parking lot, acquiring a scheduled usage time at which a passenger of the vehicle is scheduled to use the specific facility. And the one or more processors are configured to execute the following first and second processes. The first process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot when the scheduled usage time is more than a predetermined time after a current time. The second process is moving the vehicle to the pick-up and drop-off area in response to the current time becoming the predetermined time before the scheduled usage time after the vehicle is parked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya SUGANO, Hiroya CHIBA, Rika OIKE
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Publication number: 20240255288Abstract: An automated valet parking management device according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store map information on a parking facility including a loading dock and positional information on a door of a cargo room included in a cargo vehicle that performs at least one of a carry-in and a carry-out of a cargo in the loading dock. The one or more processors execute parking arrangement processing for determining a parking position and a parking direction of the cargo vehicle when the cargo working operation of the cargo vehicle is performed based on the map information and the positional information on the door before the cargo working operation is started by the cargo vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Yuhei OKA, Yuki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240217525Abstract: A load and unload support device includes an information processing unit for communicating with a user terminal of a first vehicle and a control terminal of a second vehicle. When the second vehicle is parked between an entrance/exit of a parallel parking lot connected to a road and the first vehicle, the information processing unit transmits a temporary unload instruction for the second vehicle that is received from the user terminal to the control terminal. When receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle from the user terminal subsequent to a receipt of the temporary unload instruction, the information processing unit transmits the load instruction for the second vehicle to the control terminal. When a predetermined time elapses after the receipt of the temporary unload instruction without receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle, information processing unit transmits an alert notification to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Rika OIKE
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Patent number: 12005920Abstract: A control device that executes display control to perform emphasis display of a preceding vehicle, includes a detection unit that detects a candidate vehicle for a following target from among a plurality of the preceding vehicles; a calculation unit that calculates, a reduction effect of energy consumption to be obtained when traveling following the candidate vehicle; and an emphasis display setting unit that performs setting for performing emphasis display of the candidate vehicle. Further, when the display control is executed, the emphasis display of the candidate vehicle is performed according to a degree of emphasis set by the emphasis display setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Ito, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroya Chiba
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Publication number: 20240153387Abstract: A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method for managing the parking lot includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space having a highest entry priority among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a first parking space and a second parking space that is closer to an installation position of the single camera than the first parking space is. An entry priority of the first parking space is higher than an entry priority of the second parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroya CHIBA
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Publication number: 20240144825Abstract: A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a priority parking space depending on a size of the entry vehicle. Even when the entry vehicle is parked in the priority parking space, a predetermined percentage or more of a parking space adjacent to the priority parking space is not hidden by the entry vehicle when viewed from the single camera. The parking space allocation process includes: acquiring information on the size of the entry vehicle; recognizing the priority parking space among the plurality of parking spaces based on the size of the entry vehicle; and preferentially allocating the priority parking space to the entry vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroya CHIBA
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Publication number: 20240119837Abstract: A parking lot includes: a plurality of parking spaces arranged in series in a first direction; a camera configured to take a picture of the plurality of parking spaces; and a recognition target provided in each of the plurality of parking spaces. A usage status of each parking space is determined based on a result of recognition of the recognition target by the camera. Each parking space includes a first parking space line and a second parking space line. The first parking space line is located closer to the camera than the second parking space line is in the first direction. The recognition target is arranged to be decentered from a center line between the first parking space line and the second parking space line toward a region on a side of the second parking space line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroya CHIBA