Patents by Inventor Kazuya Nishimura

Kazuya Nishimura 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: 20250037365
    Abstract: A generation device (10) includes: a 3D reconstruction unit (12) that reconstructs an original three-dimensional image based on a plurality of images and a plurality of depth images, and acquires information indicating a position, a posture, a shape, and an appearance of a mapping target object that is a target of mapping to a digital space, and position information and posture information of an imaging device that has captured the image and the depth image; a labeling unit (13) that acquires a plurality of two-dimensional images in which labels or categories are associated with all pixels in an image based on the plurality of images; an estimation unit (14) that estimates a material and mass of the mapping target object based on the plurality of two-dimensional images and the position information and the posture information of the imaging device; and a generation unit (16) that integrates the information indicating a position, a posture, a shape, and an appearance of the mapping target object, and the inform
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro SUZUKI, Kazuya MATSUO, Lidwina Ayu ANDARINI, Takashi KUBO, Toru NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250016289
    Abstract: An information processing method is performed using an information processing system including vehicles and a sever device. The method includes transmitting, using the communication unit of each vehicle, notification information set to the server device. The notification information set includes the peripheral image in which an elementary school student is captured and position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the image capturing unit. The method also includes sending, using the server device, at least one notification set among the notification information sets to an information terminal. The at least one notification information set includes a peripheral image in which an elementary school student who is away from a school route of the elementary school is captured, and the position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the image capturing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Keiko NAKANO, Yohei NAKANISHI, Takahiro MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20250010863
    Abstract: An information processing method is a method executed by an information processing system including: a vehicle including an imaging unit and a communication unit; and a server device. The information processing method includes: requesting, by the server device, the vehicle positioned in an information collecting area including a stop position of a train that moves on a railroad track to provide a peripheral image when the train stops between stations; and transmitting, by the communication unit of the vehicle positioned in the information collecting area, a stoppage factor image that is the peripheral image in which at least one of the train that has stopped in the stop position and the railroad track near the train appears to the server device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Naoki Uenoyama, Keiko Nakano, Yohei Nakanishi, Takahiro Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12183188
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240430388
    Abstract: An information processing method is a method executed by an information processing system including a vehicle equipped with an imaging unit, a position information acquisition unit, and a communication unit, and a server device. The information processing method includes: transmitting, from the communication unit of the vehicle to the server device, notification information including a surrounding image in which an elementary school student is shown, and position information of the vehicle when the surrounding image is generated by the imaging unit; and notifying, by the server device, an information terminal of notification information including a lost item image that is a surrounding image in which belongings of the elementary school student are shown but the elementary school student is not shown, and position information of the vehicle when the lost item image is generated by the imaging unit, from among the notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Naoki Uenoyama, Keiko Nakano, Yohei Nakanishi, Takahiro Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12165504
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12159542
    Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit; and a control unit that transmits and receives information via the communication unit. When a flying object flies around a complex housing, the control unit transmits, to the flying object, information on a flight route in which a transported object of the flying object enters a blind spot from inside of the complex housing based on information on the complex housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12115856
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle terminal device that is able to perform communication with a server device, an identification information acquisition unit acquires identification information of a user who boards a vehicle. A communication unit transmits the identification information of the user to the server device and receives arrangement information of a plurality of display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user transmitted from the server device. A setting unit decides an arrangement of the display elements of the in-vehicle display according to an arrangement criterion based on vehicle type information of the vehicle using the arrangement information of the display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Jun Goto, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 12111173
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that determines a travel path of a wheelchair. The control unit determines the travel path of the wheelchair based on information on a step existing on a road surface on which the wheelchair travels and information on a wheel of the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12112619
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12094350
    Abstract: The control device includes a control unit that is configured to control an unmanned aerial vehicle that collects a collection object. The control unit acquires information that indicates an odor intensity of the collection object to be collected, and determines a flight route of the unmanned aerial vehicle after the unmanned aerial vehicle picks up the collection object located at a collection point, based on the information that indicates the odor intensity of the collection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12087155
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada
  • Patent number: 12084274
    Abstract: A method executed by a control device includes: acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor; determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor information; and causing a garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240221102
    Abstract: A data management system includes a marketplace that manages a digital asset as a non-fungible token (NFT), and a driver terminal used by a driver of a vehicle to acquire the NFT. The marketplace registers a plurality of target conditions in association with the NFT, the plurality of target conditions being conditions concerning at least one of environment and safety that are desired to be achieved during driving. The marketplace obtains data for determining whether driving of the vehicle by the driver has achieved a selected target condition, from the vehicle, the driver terminal, or a data center. When the driving of the vehicle by the driver has achieved the selected target condition, the marketplace gives the NFT associated with the achieved target condition to the driver terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11983021
    Abstract: A controller includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a state of at least one point, and determine depending on the detected state whether or not to include, in a flight route of a flying object transporting a package, a position above the at least one point as a passing point for the flying object to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11952115
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948457
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948451
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11927971
    Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11928751
    Abstract: A method that is executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information regarding a vehicle, acquiring second information regarding a first product selected by a user, deciding a procedure for loading the first product into the vehicle based on the first information and the second information, and performing notification of the procedure for loading the first product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Josuke Yamane, Soutaro Kaneko