Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Tokita

Hiroyuki Tokita 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: 11758375
    Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to provide an information processing apparatus that can easily grasp a passenger during a driver's driving. A controller included in an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure executes: acquiring first information that is information related to an appearance of a passenger having requested a ride in a vehicle being driven by a driver and is image information taken; and generating information related to the passenger by converting the first information into second information representing a predetermined characteristic part of the appearance of the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo Kim, Shin Sakurada, Daisuke Tanabe, Ayana Takeshita, Hiroyuki Tokita, Koichi Asamoto
  • Publication number: 20230222900
    Abstract: A method includes, by a processor, acquiring number of persons information that indicates a number of users, including users who ride in vehicles, who depart from a facility at each of a predetermined time period, weather information for each predetermined time period, and vehicle information relating to vehicles traveling in a periphery of the facility, determining traffic jam status that indicates absence/presence of a traffic jam on a road located in a vicinity of the facility in the predetermined time period, by using the vehicle information; and generating a learned model for predicting a traffic jam of a road by machine learning using, as teaching data, the number of persons information, the weather information, and the traffic jam status that is associated with the number of persons information and the weather information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Ayumu SHIOMI, Atsushi MIYAGAWA, Hiroki TAKEUCHI, Toshiyuki KAWAI, Ryosuke FUKAYA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Yusuke IKENOUE, Naoyuki SAKA, Tsukasa KATO, Katsuhisa YOSHIKAWA, Shugen YAMAMURA, Takayuki AKAISHI
  • Patent number: 11654916
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tokita
  • Patent number: 11407276
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus, includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user and weather information on weather at an outing destination of the user through the communication unit, the outing destination being obtained based on the user information, and notify, to the vehicle through the communication unit, a set temperature of an air-conditioner of the vehicle based on a sensible temperature derived based on the weather information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tokita
  • Publication number: 20220146268
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is applied to a traffic mode where a plurality of users including a first user and a second user ride in an identical vehicle and travel, and the second user gets off the identical vehicle earlier than the first user. A controller is configured to execute: acquiring destination points of the first user and the second user; setting a predetermined area including the destination point of the first user and an area proximate to the destination point of the first user; determining whether the destination point of the second user is within or outside the predetermined area; and upon determining that the destination point of the second user is outside the predetermined area, setting a combination between the first user and the second user so that the first user and the second user are allowed to ride in the identical vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo KIM, Shin SAKURADA, Daisuke TANABE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Koichi ASAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11237006
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to this disclosure is an information processing apparatus applied to a traffic mode where a plurality of users including a first user and a second user ride in an identical vehicle and travel, and the second user gets off the identical vehicle earlier than the first user does, including a controller configured to execute: acquiring destination points of the first user and the second user; and setting a combination between the first user and the second user allowed to ride in the identical vehicle so that the destination point of the second user does not belong to a destination area that is a predetermined area including the destination point of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo Kim, Shin Sakurada, Daisuke Tanabe, Ayana Takeshita, Hiroyuki Tokita, Koichi Asamoto
  • Patent number: 11151811
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user via the communication unit, determine a usage mode of the vehicle according to a use purpose of the vehicle, the use purpose being estimated based on the user information, and send usage mode information on the usage mode to the vehicle via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokita, Hiroyuki Sawada, Shojiro Suga
  • Publication number: 20210300368
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tokita
  • Patent number: 11117586
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tokita
  • Patent number: 11059487
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tokita
  • Publication number: 20200257285
    Abstract: A user assistance system includes: an assistance information reception unit configured to receive, from a user terminal of a user who uses a place where the user works in cooperation with another user, assistance information indicating that the user asks for assistance; an information generation unit configured to generate control information for controlling a vehicle to be used by the user when the assistance information reception unit receives the assistance information; and a communication unit configured to transmit the control information to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TOKITA
  • Patent number: 10720060
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform, in a case where a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for a first wireless communication terminal used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle, a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation. The process regarding a meet-up schedule may be cancellation of the ride reservation, change of a scheduled meet-up location, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo Kim, Shin Sakurada, Daisuke Tanabe, Ayana Takeshita, Hiroyuki Tokita, Koichi Asamoto
  • Publication number: 20190392714
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform, in a case where a possibility of communication interruption due to an insufficient remaining amount of battery is detected for a first wireless communication terminal used by a first user for whom a ride reservation for a vehicle is established with a driver of the vehicle, a process regarding a meet-up schedule of the driver and the first user of the ride reservation. The process regarding a meet-up schedule may be cancellation of the ride reservation, change of a scheduled meet-up location, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo KIM, Shin SAKURADA, Daisuke TANABE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Koichi ASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190390968
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to this disclosure is an information processing apparatus applied to a traffic mode where a plurality of users including a first user and a second user ride in an identical vehicle and travel, and the second user gets off the identical vehicle earlier than the first user does, including a controller configured to execute: acquiring destination points of the first user and the second user; and setting a combination between the first user and the second user allowed to ride in the identical vehicle so that the destination point of the second user does not belong to a destination area that is a predetermined area including the destination point of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo KIM, Shin SAKURADA, Daisuke TANABE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Koichi ASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190380013
    Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to provide an information processing apparatus that can easily grasp a passenger during a driver's driving. A controller included in an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure executes: acquiring first information that is information related to an appearance of a passenger having requested a ride in a vehicle being driven by a driver and is image information taken; and generating information related to the passenger by converting the first information into second information representing a predetermined characteristic part of the appearance of the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo KIM, Shin SAKURADA, Daisuke TANABE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Koichi ASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190378095
    Abstract: When a meet-up schedule is set between users of a first and a second wireless communication terminals that are capable of communication by a first wireless communication scheme, an information processing apparatus notifies the second wireless communication terminal, through the communication network by the first wireless communication scheme, of identification information of the first wireless communication terminal in a second wireless communication scheme. The first wireless communication terminal operates as a transmitter of a first wireless signal according to the second wireless communication scheme, including the identification information of the first wireless communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo KIM, Shin SAKURADA, Daisuke TANABE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Koichi ASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190359029
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus, includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user and weather information on weather at an outing destination of the user through the communication unit, the outing destination being obtained based on the user information, and notify, to the vehicle through the communication unit, a set temperature of an air-conditioner of the vehicle based on a sensible temperature derived based on the weather information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TOKITA
  • Publication number: 20190340851
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user via the communication unit, determine a usage mode of the vehicle according to a use purpose of the vehicle, the use purpose being estimated based on the user information, and send usage mode information on the usage mode to the vehicle via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TOKITA, Hiroyuki SAWADA, Shojiro SUGA
  • Publication number: 20190135284
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TOKITA
  • Publication number: 20090097737
    Abstract: In a visual inspection apparatus according to the present invention, a carrier base 2 supports a substrate 1 and tilts the substrate 1. The light source 3 illuminates light onto the surface of the substrate 1. The image-pickup apparatus 4 upon capturing an image of the substrate 1 produces image data and puts them out to a control apparatus 6. The image-pickup apparatus 4 is disposed in the vicinity of an eye view position P of the inspector. The control apparatus 6 stores the image data put out from the image-capturing apparatus 4 into an internally-disposed storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Hiroshi NAIKI