Patents by Inventor Keiko Katsukawa

Keiko Katsukawa 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: 8649946
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing unit 16 collects vehicle information, which is information relating to the discharge amount of exhaust gas of at least one at any of a predetermined point, a predetermined section, and a predetermined period of time. An ecological traveling history DB 26 accumulates the vehicle information collected by the vehicle information processing unit 16 for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. A display device 30 displays the vehicle information accumulated in the ecological traveling history DB 26 by an image on a map including each point for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. Therefore, it becomes possible to allow a driver to recognize previous traveling performance at the point through which the vehicle has traveled, and to more effectively provide the driver with a guide or a motivation to perform ecological traveling, thereby providing a more useful in-vehicle apparatus which allows the driver to perform ecological traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Keiko Katsukawa, Minako Fujishiro, Yoshiharu Sato, Yukiko Nakamura, Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8510036
    Abstract: The invention provides an information providing device and an information providing system which can provide suitable destination information according to the utilization situation of a user. The information providing device is an information providing device mounted on a vehicle and provides information on potential destinations. An information providing unit which provides information on a potential destination in accordance with the performance of electronic payment at a destination after traveling assistance is provided. By providing this information on a potential destination, a potential destination can be selected on the basis of information on a destination for which traveling assistance has actually been provided and which has been utilized, information on the potential destination can be provided, and information on a suitable potential destination according to the actual utilization situation of a user can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sekiyama, Shinji Sugiyama, Keiko Katsukawa
  • Publication number: 20120221215
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing unit 16 collects vehicle information, which is information relating to the discharge amount of exhaust gas of at least one at any of a predetermined point, a predetermined section, and a predetermined period of time. An ecological traveling history DB 26 accumulates the vehicle information collected by the vehicle information processing unit 16 for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. A display device 30 displays the vehicle information accumulated in the ecological traveling history DB 26 by an image on a map including each point for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. Therefore, it becomes possible to allow a driver to recognize previous traveling performance at the point through which the vehicle has traveled, and to more effectively provide the driver with a guide or a motivation to perform ecological traveling, thereby providing a more useful in-vehicle apparatus which allows the driver to perform ecological traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Keiko Katsukawa, Minako Fujishiro, Yoshiharu Sato, Yukiko Nakamura, Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110166778
    Abstract: The invention aims to provide an information providing device and an information providing system which can provide suitable destination information according to the utilization situation of a user. The information providing device related to the invention is an information providing device which is mounted on a vehicle and provides information on potential destinations. The information providing device includes an information providing unit which provides information on a potential destination in accordance with the performance of electronic payment at a destination after traveling assistance to the destination by a vehicle-mounted device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sekiyama, Shinji Sugiyama, Keiko Katsukawa