Patents by Inventor Ibuki SHIMADA

Ibuki SHIMADA 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: 20240133701
    Abstract: A travel plan formulation apparatus according to the present disclosure is a travel plan formulation apparatus including a controller configured to acquire a travel plan for a vehicle and road information regarding an intrusion restricted road on which the intrusion of people into a roadway is restricted, determine, based on the road information, whether a travel route included in the travel plan includes a road other than the intrusion restricted road, and upon detecting that the travel route includes the road other than the intrusion restricted road, modify the travel route so as to avoid the road other than the intrusion restricted road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240135398
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire questionnaire data including a score for each autonomous driving system installed in each vehicle among a plurality of vehicles operated by autonomous driving along a predetermined operation route, the score being an evaluation index of ride comfort of each vehicle, identify, based on an aggregate result of the questionnaire data, a vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles for which the score is determined to be less than a threshold as a first vehicle, and extract first data to be used in analyzing ride comfort from first vehicle information acquired by a first autonomous driving system, which is an autonomous driving system installed in the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240132087
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire first information identifying an abnormal state of an autonomous vehicle from an autonomous driving kit of the autonomous vehicle and acquire second information on the autonomous vehicle from an in-vehicle communication device of the autonomous vehicle, and a controller configured to change an operation pattern of the autonomous vehicle to an abnormality response pattern determined based on the first information and the second information and output the abnormality response pattern to the autonomous driving kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Ibuki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20240132114
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, via a communication interface, first data to be transmitted at first time intervals and second data to be transmitted at second time intervals longer than the first time intervals from the vehicle, the first data indicating an operational state of the vehicle at a time of transmission of the first data, the second data indicating operational states of the vehicle at multiple times up to a time of transmission of the second data, generate, with reference to the received first data, third data indicating a time at which the vehicle has transitioned to each of a series of operational states, and complement the third data with reference to the received second data upon determining that the received first data has missing data indicating at least one of the series of operational states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Ibuki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20240135818
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input interface that accepts a parking reservation for a vehicle for which parking is desired, and a controller that confirms, when the vehicle for which parking is desired is a first vehicle whose purpose for parking includes charging, whether there is an opening for reservation of a first parking lot having a charging station, completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle when there is an opening, changes a reservation of the first parking lot for at least one second vehicle, selected based on a predetermined condition from among one or more reservation holding vehicles for which acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot is completed, to a reservation of a second parking lot based on the predetermined condition when there is no opening, and completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240135277
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus operates one or more vehicles by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to predict, for each vehicle based on operation plan data, a time point at which driving is switched from automated driving to manual driving, identify, as a target vehicle, a vehicle for which time until the predicted time point is less than a threshold value, acquire vehicle data and/or operation record data, determine, based on the acquired vehicle data or the acquired operation record data, one or more types of abnormality having occurred in the target vehicle, designate, from among a plurality of workers according to the determined types of abnormality, a first worker who is to perform a maintenance operation on the target vehicle at a site near the target vehicle, and notify the first worker of information that prompts the first worker to take care of the abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240083297
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total electrical energy consumption required for traveling the operation route, and compares the total electrical energy consumption indicated by the first predicted value with a SOC prior to operation of the vehicle, and when the SOC prior to operation does not satisfy the total electrical energy consumption, extracts links satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate links for switching to a manual driving section from among links designated as an autonomous driving section and changes the operation plan so that the SOC prior to operation satisfies the total electrical energy consumption by switching at least one of the extracted candidate links to the manual driving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11906822
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a detected value of a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside one or more openings that is formed in a wall surface of a first building, each of the one or more openings using light control glass, the wall surface facing outside, and control transmittance of the light control glass based on the detected value of the sensor. A building includes one or more opening that is formed in at least a wall surface that faces outside, the opening using light control glass; a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside the one or more openings; and a control device that controls transmittance of the light control glass based on a detected value of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Matsubara, Ibuki Shimada, Keisuke Shoji, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20240005797
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating a work shift of a staff member on board a first vehicle in which a medical checkup is being performed, or information indicating a number of remaining pieces of equipment on board the first vehicle, and determine to dispatch a second vehicle with a new staff member on board or new equipment on board to a stopping location of the first vehicle upon determining, based on the acquired information, that the staff member needs to be replaced or the equipment needs to be replenished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230386654
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive information for identifying a patient from a terminal apparatus and output, on a condition that a total examination time is equal to or less than a travel time for a travel route of the patient, information to one or more medical examination vehicles that each provide a medical examination for one or more examination items on which the patient has not yet been examined, the information being for causing the one or more medical examination vehicles to travel the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230368912
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller and a memory. The information processing apparatus is communicable with a patient-side terminal and doctor-side terminals via a network. The controller is configured to execute operations including: receiving, from the patient-side terminal, measurement data on a patient in a medical checkup; identifying an available doctor in the memory; transmitting the measurement data to a doctor-side terminal corresponding to the doctor; receiving, from the doctor-side terminal, a diagnostic result for the measurement data; and transmitting the diagnostic result to the patient-side terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230360785
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, upon accepting appointments for health checkups from users, present the users with inquiry information inquiring of each user whether to be able to provide a parking place for a vehicle equipped with equipment to be used for the health checkups, and determine a parking place based on replies from the users to an inquiry indicated by the inquiry information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230360784
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to determine a stop location for a health checkup vehicle at which travel distances required for patients of health checkups to be performed on the health checkup vehicle to travel to the health checkup vehicle are equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, calculate a parking allowable number at the stop location or a parking allowable number at a parking lot in a vicinity of the stop location, and suggest, in a case in which the patients include more patients who plan to travel using vehicles than the parking allowable number, transportation means other than the vehicles to the patients who plan to travel using the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230352158
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which a user whose physical condition has worsened or who is suspected of being ill is detected during a medical checkup, the controller determines a hospital to which the user is to be transported from among a plurality of hospitals located within a predetermined range from a site of the medical checkup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230280169
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus including a controller, the controller is configured to execute operations including accepting designation of a reserved stop as a stop for a vehicle, determining a stop other than the reserved stop as a standby stop when it is determined that the reserved stop is to be used by another vehicle at a scheduled arrival time at the reserved stop, and notifying a passenger of the vehicle that the vehicle is stopping at the standby stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ibuki Shimada, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Hiromitsu Urano, Daichi Hotta
  • Publication number: 20230274211
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire reservation information including a reservation time of a medical checkup for a user and a site of the medical checkup, acquire boarding positional information indicating a boarding position of the user, and generate a dispatch plan for a vehicle, that the user boards to travel between the boarding position and the site, based on the reservation information and the boarding positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Seii SAI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Takahiro AOKI, Keishi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230098155
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication portion, and a controlling portion configured to perform communication by the communication portion. In a case where a first vehicle operated on a route has no vacant seat, an information processing apparatus configured to, upon receipt of passenger information on a passenger desired to board the first vehicle without reservation, output information indicative of permission of boarding when the first vehicle has a vacant seat outputs information indicative of non-permission of boarding and transmits the passenger information, and upon receipt of the passenger information, the controlling portion makes a reservation for boarding to a second vehicle in association with the passenger information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ibuki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20230047976
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted in a delivery automatic driving vehicle with a monitoring device for remote monitoring. The information processing apparatus includes a controller that suppresses a monitoring function of the monitoring device when determining that a delivery person does not exist inside the automatic driving vehicle in a stopped state of the automatic driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20220084655
    Abstract: A more appropriate proposal is made far an action to be performed by a user in a free time of his or her schedule. A controller is provided which performs: obtaining schedules of a user; and transmitting to a terminal of the user, based on a content of a first schedule among the schedules of the user, a proposal for an action of the user to change his or her mood in a first free time in which the user has no schedule immediately before the first schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Matsubara, Ibuki Shimada, Keisuke Shoji, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20220082873
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a detected value of a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside one or more openings that is formed in a wall surface of a first building, each of the one or more openings using light control glass, the wall surface facing outside, and control transmittance of the light control glass based on the detected value of the sensor. A building includes one or more opening that is formed in at least a wall surface that faces outside, the opening using light control glass; a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside the one or more openings; and a control device that controls transmittance of the light control glass based on a detected value of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya MATSUBARA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Keisuke SHOJI, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yurika TANAKA, Satoshi KOMAMINE