Patents by Inventor Jun Usami
Jun Usami 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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Patent number: 11836783Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus executes: acquiring information indicating a sales schedule of a substitutional product of a product that a user has been purchasing by periodic delivery, in a predetermined period including a next delivery-scheduled day of the product; determining a delivery-possible day when the substitutional product can be delivered to the user, based on the information indicating the sales schedule of the substitutional product; and providing the user with recommendation information, which is information including a proposal to deliver, instead of delivering the product on the delivery-scheduled day, the substitutional product on the delivery-possible day.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Usami, Takaharu Ueno, Shunsuke Sagara, Lei Wang, Shintaro Matsutani, Kyoji Iijima
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Patent number: 11643114Abstract: The disclosure is an information processing device that manages an operation of an autonomous vehicle having a loading space in which a parcel is loaded. The information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring operation plan information including a route along which the autonomous vehicle travels when the autonomous vehicle delivers the parcel, and a delivery time for the parcel; and acquiring vacant space information based on the operation plan information, the vacant space information including a traveling section where a vacant space is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle, a time when the vacant space is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle, and the size of the vacant space that is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABISHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11610216Abstract: A control section of a server apparatus as an information processing apparatus in the disclosure executes: inquiring of a terminal of a user who desires to board a self-driving vehicle operating for pickup-delivery of an item, whether or not the user is able to handle work of pickup-delivery of the item at a pickup-delivery location between the self-driving vehicle and a pickup-delivery service user; and when a response indicating that the user is able to handle the work of pickup-delivery when the user is on board the self-driving vehicle is received from the terminal, transmitting to the self-driving vehicle an instruction to allow the user who desires to board and is able to handle the work of pickup-delivery to board the self-driving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11569899Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Publication number: 20220382283Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi SUZUKI, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11465696Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an autonomous traveling vehicle having a loading space for loading a package and/or a user. The autonomous traveling vehicle includes: a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state where the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state where the loading space forms one continuous space; and a control unit that controls the partition apparatus such that the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only any one of the package and the user is loaded in the loading space and the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11442453Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11410197Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Hirotaka Sunada, Hideo Hasegawa, Naomi Kondo, Takashi Shiomi, Kazuya Mikashima, Jun Usami, Yasuhiko Fukuzumi, Sayaka Ishikawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Tasuku Kuno
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Publication number: 20220164904Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus including a controller configured to detect information to indicate a start of use of digital content by a user; acquire information to indicate a period of use of the digital content; and determine a necessity of providing food and beverages to the user based on the information to indicate a period of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun USAMI, Takaharu UENO, Shunsuke SAGARA, Lei WANG, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Kyoji IIJIMA
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Publication number: 20220164854Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus executes: acquiring information indicating a sales schedule of a substitutional product of a product that a user has been purchasing by periodic delivery, in a predetermined period including a next delivery-scheduled day of the product; determining a delivery-possible day when the substitutional product can be delivered to the user, based on the information indicating the sales schedule of the substitutional product; and providing the user with recommendation information, which is information including a proposal to deliver, instead of delivering the product on the delivery-scheduled day, the substitutional product on the delivery-possible day.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun USAMI, Takaharu UENO, Shunsuke SAGARA, Lei WANG, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Kyoji IIJIMA
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Publication number: 20220147916Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller. When it is determined that a user is at home, the controller obtains taste information relating to the taste of the user for food and drink. The controller selects a candidate item to be delivered on the basis of the obtained taste information. The candidate item to be delivered is a candidate of an item of food and drink to be delivered to the user's home. The controller executes specific processing relating to delivery of the selected candidate item to be delivered to the user's home.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun USAMI, Takaharu UENO, Shunsuke SAGARA, Lei WANG, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Kyoji IIJIMA
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Publication number: 20220138832Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about shoes worn by a user when the user goes out; obtaining a moving distance on foot when the user goes out; managing the moving distance on foot in association with the shoes worn by the user when the user goes out; and proposing, to the user, replacement of the shoes worn by the user when an integrated value of the moving distance on foot associated with the shoes worn by the user when the user goes out is equal to or greater than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Usami, Takaharu Ueno, Shunsuke Sagara, Lei Wang, Shintaro Matsutani, Kyoji Iijima
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Publication number: 20210250080Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi SUZUKI, Toru NISHITANI, Jun USAMI, Minami YODA, Kensuke KOIKE, Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Yohei TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20210235025Abstract: A control unit of an autonomous vehicle, which is a moving object of the present disclosure, acquires a video of the outside of the autonomous vehicle to be displayed on a window display on an inner wall surface of the autonomous vehicle, and superimposes, on the acquired video, an image corresponding to a location of the autonomous vehicle to display on the window display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
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Publication number: 20210166273Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
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Patent number: 11025335Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Publication number: 20200327460Abstract: A control unit of a server device, as an information processing apparatus of the present disclosure, is configured to execute: notifying a terminal held by a first user associated with pick-up/delivery (P/D) of a package of a P/D route and a scheduled passing time of the P/D route, at a predetermined time before a scheduled P/D time; receiving a boarding request of the first user, which is for boarding at a first location on the P/D route or within a first predetermined range around the P/D route, from the terminal; and transmitting to a moving object traveling for the P/D, a command for transporting the first user from the first location to a P/D destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi SUZUKi, Toru NISHITANI, Jun USAMI, Minami YODA, Kensuke KOIKE, Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Yohei TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20200328800Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa
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Publication number: 20200307649Abstract: A control section of a server apparatus as an information processing apparatus in the disclosure executes: inquiring of a terminal of a user who desires to board a self-driving vehicle operating for pickup-delivery of an item, whether or not the user is able to handle work of pickup-delivery of the item at a pickup-delivery location between the self-driving vehicle and a pickup-delivery service user; and when a response indicating that the user is able to handle the work of pickup-delivery when the user is on board the self-driving vehicle is received from the terminal, transmitting to the self-driving vehicle an instruction to allow the user who desires to board and is able to handle the work of pickup-delivery to board the self-driving vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi SUZUKI, Toru NISHITANI, Jun USAMI, Minami YODA, Kensuke KOIKE, Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Yohei TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20200310438Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Toru Nishitani, Jun Usami, Minami Yoda, Kensuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Yohei Tanigawa