Patents by Inventor Junya Watanabe
Junya Watanabe 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: 11954625Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11952423Abstract: A novel antibody that can be used as an anti-tumor agent and an anti-tumor agent that comprises, as an active ingredient, a molecule containing such an antibody.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: MIE UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Shiku, Yasushi Akahori, Kento Tanaka, Ayaka Yatsu, Junya Ichikawa, Toshiaki Ohtsuka, Shiho Kozuma, Ryuji Hashimoto, Makiko Nakayama, Naoya Shinozaki, Kensuke Nakamura, Ichiro Watanabe, Shinji Furuzono
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Patent number: 11915176Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Publication number: 20240056314Abstract: A data management system includes a plurality of data management apparatuses, a certification authority group, and a time stamp authority group. In making an application for a proof of existence of invention information, the data management apparatus generates an invention hash, and transmits the invention hash to selected time stamp authorities of the time stamp authority group. Each of the time stamp authorities having received the invention hash generates a time stamp token. The data management apparatus acquires the time stamp token from each of the plurality of time stamp authorities to which the invention hash has been transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Junya WATANABE, Shigeki MATSUMOTO, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Ryota SUZUKI, Yuki YAMASHITA, Hitoshi MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 11900812Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize a crossing person who crosses over a path of a vehicle and acquire information on the crossing person and information on an environment where the crossing person crosses, a scheduled departure time deciding unit configured to decide a scheduled departure time of the vehicle based on the information on the crossing person and the environment where the crossing person crosses when the crossing person is recognized by the external situation recognition unit, and an informing controller configured to perform a control to inform an outside of the vehicle of the scheduled departure time. The scheduled departure time deciding unit predicts a crossing completion time at which the crossing person recognized by the external situation recognition unit completes the crossing and decides the scheduled departure time based on the crossing completion time.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Morimura, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
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Patent number: 11755022Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize an external situation around a vehicle to recognize a traffic participant, an action schedule acquisition unit configured to acquire a first action schedule of the vehicle, an action schedule notification unit configured to notify a terminal possessed by the traffic participant of the first action schedule of the vehicle to request an approval of the first action schedule, a receiver configured to receive the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal; and an execution controller configured to execute an operation of the vehicle in accordance with the first action schedule when the receiver receives the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal and to suppress the operation of the vehicle in accordance with the first action schedule when the receiver does not receive the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Morimura, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
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Patent number: 11719884Abstract: An optical fiber alignment tool includes a fiber aligner that includes: separators that assort optical fibers; and fiber insertion portions each disposed between a respective pair of the separators and that align the optical fibers in an alignment direction in a predetermined order when the optical fibers are inserted into the fiber insertion portion; and a fiber holding portion that includes a mount surface on which the optical fibers are mounted. The fiber aligner and the fiber holding portion are relatively movable in the alignment direction of the optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Thao Thi Thanh Nguyen, Junya Watanabe, Kunihiko Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20230158998Abstract: When an autonomous driving vehicle picks a user up, a control device performs departure condition confirmation processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya WATANABE
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Patent number: 11631330Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize a crossing person who crosses over a path of a vehicle and acquire information on the crossing person and information on an environment where the crossing person crosses, a scheduled departure time deciding unit configured to decide a scheduled departure time of the vehicle based on the information on the crossing person and the environment where the crossing person crosses when the crossing person is recognized by the external situation recognition unit, and an informing controller configured to perform a control to inform an outside of the vehicle of the scheduled departure time. The scheduled departure time deciding unit predicts a crossing completion time at which the crossing person recognized by the external situation recognition unit completes the crossing and decides the scheduled departure time based on the crossing completion time.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Morimura, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
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Patent number: 11615433Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device is configured to dispatch a vehicle having an autonomous driving function to a user, the device includes: a search unit configured to search for a first alternative moving object when the vehicle cannot continue the autonomous driving to the destination during the autonomous driving of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer at a boarding position which is within a predetermined distance from a position on a route to an end position of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, within a predetermined time from alighting from the vehicle; and a grant unit configured to grant a reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa, Yuji Sasaki, Masafumi Hayakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11529928Abstract: When an autonomous driving vehicle picks a user up, a control device performs departure condition confirmation processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11514390Abstract: A delivery system including a vehicle in which a package addressed to a specific user is stored, and a moving body deployed at a delivery site of the package: the moving body including: a first memory, and a first processor that is connected to the first memory; and the first processor being configured to: transmit and receive predetermined information, and perform control, in a case in which the vehicle is proximate to the delivery site, to move the moving body from the delivery site toward the vehicle, to retrieve the package, and then to move the moving body back to the delivery site.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayano Tsuruta, Yasuhiro Hara, Junya Watanabe, Kenta Miyahara, Nana Kikuire
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Patent number: 11373126Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11354619Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device includes a position determination unit determining whether or not a destination and a delivery place match each other, a calculation unit calculates a delivery service fee to the delivery place, and a distance determination unit determining whether or not a boarding distance from a boarding position to the destination is equal to or longer than a reference boarding distance, wherein when the destination and the delivery place do not match each other and the boarding distance is not equal to or longer than the reference boarding distance, the calculation unit calculates a first delivery service fee, and when the destination and the delivery place do not match each other and the boarding distance is equal to or longer than the reference boarding distance, the calculation unit calculates a second delivery service fee, which is lower than the first delivery service fee.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naotoshi Kadotani, Seiji Arakawa, Junya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220122462Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize a crossing person who crosses over a path of a vehicle and acquire information on the crossing person and information on an environment where the crossing person crosses, a scheduled departure time deciding unit configured to decide a scheduled departure time of the vehicle based on the information on the crossing person and the environment where the crossing person crosses when the crossing person is recognized by the external situation recognition unit, and an informing controller configured to perform a control to inform an outside of the vehicle of the scheduled departure time. The scheduled departure time deciding unit predicts a crossing completion time at which the crossing person recognized by the external situation recognition unit completes the crossing and decides the scheduled departure time based on the crossing completion time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi MORIMURA, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
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Publication number: 20220118944Abstract: When an autonomous driving vehicle picks a user up, a control device performs departure condition confirmation processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya WATANABE
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Patent number: 11300421Abstract: An alighting position setting device includes an option presentation unit configured to present an occupant of a vehicle with multiple options set in advance relating to a request for an alighting position for a destination when the vehicle in an autonomous driving toward the destination set in advance approaches the destination, an option recognition unit configured to recognize the option selected by the occupant from the multiple options, and an alighting position setting unit configured to set an alighting position based on the request for the alighting position corresponding to the option selected by the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa, Yuji Sasaki, Masafumi Hayakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11281224Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize an external situation around a vehicle to recognize a traffic participant, an action schedule acquisition unit configured to acquire a first action schedule of the vehicle, an action schedule notification unit configured to notify a terminal possessed by the traffic participant of the first action schedule of the vehicle to request an approval of the first action schedule, a receiver configured to receive the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal; and an execution controller configured to execute an operation of the vehicle in accordance with the first action schedule when the receiver receives the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal and to suppress the operation of the vehicle in accordance with the first action schedule when the receiver does not receive the approval of the first action schedule from the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Morimura, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
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Publication number: 20220082758Abstract: An optical fiber alignment tool includes a fiber aligner that includes: separators that assort optical fibers; and fiber insertion portions each disposed between a respective pair of the separators and that align the optical fibers in an alignment direction in a predetermined order when the optical fibers are inserted into the fiber insertion portion; and a fiber holding portion that includes a mount surface on which the optical fibers are mounted. The fiber aligner and the fiber holding portion are relatively movable in the alignment direction of the optical fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Thao Thi Thanh Nguyen, Junya Watanabe, Kunihiko Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20220058559Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya WATANABE, Yuji SASAKI, Seiji ARAKAWA, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Masafumi HAYAKAWA, Takashi HAYASHI