Patents by Inventor Kaori Sakai

Kaori Sakai 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: 11927454
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire information of a position and information of a travelable range of a vehicle which travels using a battery as an energy source, to extract a charging station located within the travelable range from the position out of a plurality of charging stations, to extract a spot which is able to be visited in a state in which the vehicle stops in the extracted charging station out of a plurality of spots, and to transmit information of the extracted spot along with information of the extracted charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Jun Tsukamoto, Kaori Sakai
  • Publication number: 20240034331
    Abstract: A drowsiness sign notification system applied to a vehicle includes a driver monitor and a controller. The driver monitor detects a driver state being a state of a driver of the vehicle. The controller executes a drowsiness sign determination process that determines whether or not the driver shows a drowsiness sign based on the driver state. When it is determined that the driver shows the drowsiness sign and an activation condition is satisfied, the controller executes rest area informing process that informs the driver of a rest area. The activation condition of the rest area informing process is set from a viewpoint of a relationship between a location of the rest area and a target route of the vehicle, or an expected time required for the vehicle to reach the rest area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kaori SAKAI, Takaaki ITO, Tetsu YAJIMA, Koichiro YAMAUCHI, Masataka SANO, Takuya SAKATA
  • Patent number: 11807246
    Abstract: A drowsiness sign notification system applied to a vehicle includes a driver monitor and a controller. The driver monitor detects a driver state being a state of a driver of the vehicle. The controller executes a drowsiness sign determination process that determines whether or not the driver shows a drowsiness sign based on the driver state. When it is determined that the driver shows the drowsiness sign and an activation condition is satisfied, the controller executes rest area informing process that informs the driver of a rest area. The activation condition of the rest area informing process is set from a viewpoint of a relationship between a location of the rest area and a target route of the vehicle, or an expected time required for the vehicle to reach the rest area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sakai, Takaaki Ito, Tetsu Yajima, Koichiro Yamauchi, Masataka Sano, Takuya Sakata
  • Patent number: 11694296
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to detect whether or not a vehicle that is about to use a facility is under share ride by a plurality of persons, and permit the vehicle to use the facility or providing an economic merit associated with usage of the facility to the vehicle, when having detected that the vehicle is under share ride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Okabe, Hiroaki Sakurai, Kazuaki Takemura, Kengo Takeuchi, Kaori Sakai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11488210
    Abstract: An information processing device has a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit exchanges information with a terminal device. The control unit controls the communication unit in such a manner as to transmit, to the terminal device, an advertisement associated with a composition category to which a composition of occupants in the moving object based on occupant composition information belongs, when receiving the occupant composition information from the terminal device. The occupant composition information regards the composition of the occupants in the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Jun Tsukamoto, Kaori Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220001875
    Abstract: A drowsiness sign notification system applied to a vehicle includes a driver monitor and a controller. The driver monitor detects a driver state being a state of a driver of the vehicle. The controller executes a drowsiness sign determination process that determines whether or not the driver shows a drowsiness sign based on the driver state. When it is determined that the driver shows the drowsiness sign and an activation condition is satisfied, the controller executes rest area informing process that informs the driver of a rest area. The activation condition of the rest area informing process is set from a viewpoint of a relationship between a location of the rest area and a target route of the vehicle, or an expected time required for the vehicle to reach the rest area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kaori SAKAI, Takaaki ITO, Tetsu YAJIMA, Koichiro YAMAUCHI, Masataka SANO, Takuya SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20210201353
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit performs information communication with a terminal device. When receiving route information, the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit to the terminal device an advertisement including an arrival point in a distribution area, and including expected arrival time in a target time slot or in a time slot preliminary time before the beginning of the target time slot. The route information is used to acquire the arrival point on the scheduled travel route to the destination and the expected arrival time at the arrival point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210190533
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire an expected arrival time at a destination based on route guidance to a user, acquire an action start time of the user at the destination, calculate a spare time between the expected arrival time and the action start time, extract a stopover candidate to stop over from among a plurality of stopover candidates based on the spare time, and transmit information regarding the extracted stopover candidate to a device used by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210182909
    Abstract: An information processing device has a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit exchanges information with a terminal device. The control unit controls the communication unit in such a manner as to transmit, to the terminal device, an advertisement associated with a composition category to which a composition of occupants in the moving object based on occupant composition information belongs, when receiving the occupant composition information from the terminal device. The occupant composition information regards the composition of the occupants in the moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210180969
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire information of a position and information of a travelable range of a vehicle which travels using a battery as an energy source, to extract a charging station located within the travelable range from the position out of a plurality of charging stations, to extract a spot which is able to be visited in a state in which the vehicle stops in the extracted charging station out of a plurality of spots, and to transmit information of the extracted spot along with information of the extracted charging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10997801
    Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Okabe, Hiroaki Sakurai, Kazuaki Takemura, Kengo Takeuchi, Kaori Sakai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200202639
    Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi OKABE, Hiroaki SAKURAI, Kazuaki TAKEMURA, Kengo TAKEUCHI, Kaori SAKAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10621799
    Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Okabe, Hiroaki Sakurai, Kazuaki Takemura, Kengo Takeuchi, Kaori Sakai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200012973
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor which executes accepting purchase of a ticket for an event from a first ticket purchaser and, if the first ticket purchaser is to travel to a venue for the event by a vehicle, accepting registration of information on a ride-sharing usage pattern, selecting, as a ride-sharing candidate, a second ticket purchaser which conforms to the ride-sharing usage pattern for the first ticket purchaser from among ticket purchasers which have purchased tickets for the event or a similar event partially identical in venue and period to the event, and presenting the second ticket purchaser to the first ticket purchaser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi OKABE, Hiroaki SAKURAI, Kazuaki TAKEMURA, Kengo TAKEUCHI, Kaori SAKAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200013136
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to detect whether or not a vehicle that is about to use a facility is under share ride by a plurality of persons, and permit the vehicle to use the facility or providing an economic merit associated with usage of the facility to the vehicle, when having detected that the vehicle is under share ride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi OKABE, Hiroaki SAKURAI, Kazuaki TAKEMURA, Kengo TAKEUCHI, Kaori SAKAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200011682
    Abstract: A processor provided in an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire trip information about trips of a plurality of vehicles in a predetermined region, specify, among the trips of the plurality of vehicles, based on the trip information, a trip with respect to which a travel route of a first vehicle includes a departure point and an arrival point of a travel route of a second vehicle, and generate information indicating an effect of ride-sharing on traffic by assuming establishment of ride-sharing in the first vehicle for the trip that is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi OKABE, Hiroaki SAKURAI, Kazuaki TAKEMURA, Kengo TAKEUCHI, Kaori SAKAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190378361
    Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi OKABE, Hiroaki SAKURAI, Kazuaki TAKEMURA, Kengo TAKEUCHI, Kaori SAKAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10146130
    Abstract: A composition for a base of a directed self-assembling film includes a compound including an oxo acid group, and a solvent. The compound is preferably represented by formula (1). A represents an organic group having 10 or more carbon atoms and having a valency of n. B represents an oxo acid group. n is an integer of 1 to 200. In a case where n is 2 or greater, a plurality of Bs are identical or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Komatsu, Takehiko Naruoka, Shinya Minegishi, Kaori Sakai, Tomoki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170248847
    Abstract: A composition for a base of a directed self-assembling film includes a compound including an oxo acid group, and a solvent. The compound is preferably represented by formula (1). A represents an organic group having 10 or more carbon atoms and having a valency of n. B represents an oxo acid group. n is an integer of 1 to 200. In a case where n is 2 or greater, a plurality of Bs are identical or different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOMATSU, Takehiko NARUOKA, Shinya MINEGISHI, Kaori SAKAI, Tomoki NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20170235225
    Abstract: A coloring composition including: (A) a colorant; (C) a binder resin; (D) a polymerizable compound; and (F) a solvent, wherein the colorant (A) comprises (A1) a pigment having a structure represented by the following Formula (X), and (A2) an isoindoline pigment, and wherein the solvent (F) comprises (G) at least one member selected from the group consisting of an alcohol, a ketone, and an alkyl lactate: and wherein, in the Formula (X), Ra and Rb each independently represent a monovalent organic group, and p and q each independently represent an integer from 0 to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuusuke MURATA, Kaori SAKAI, Yuuki SUEMITSU, Tomohiro TAKAMI, Shin-ichi OOTA, Masatsugu AYABE, Mibuko SHIMADA