Patents by Inventor Kenta Miyahara

Kenta Miyahara 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: 20230026932
    Abstract: In a center server as a control device, a processor is configured to acquire vehicle information on a vehicle, determine a driving skill of a driver from the acquired vehicle information, and notify the driver of permission information for permitting use of a function of the vehicle or application of equipment to the vehicle according to the determined driving skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230028990
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a map information acquisition unit that acquires map data around a vehicle; and an item display unit that overlaps a virtual item on a predetermined travel road on the map data and that displays the virtual item in a display area in a vehicle cabin. The item display unit overlaps and displays the virtual item on the map data, thereby guiding a driver of the vehicle toward the travel road on which the virtual item is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230026609
    Abstract: A driving diagnostic information management apparatus includes: a diagnostic information acquisition portion configured to acquire driving diagnostic information on a driver; a storage processing portion configured to store the driving diagnostic information per driver in a storage portion; a reception portion configured to receive a provision request on the driving diagnostic information; and a providing portion configured to, upon receipt of the provision request on the driving diagnostic information, provide the driving diagnostic information on a driver corresponding to the provision request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11514390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayano Tsuruta, Yasuhiro Hara, Junya Watanabe, Kenta Miyahara, Nana Kikuire
  • Patent number: 11482107
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining route information indicating an operation route of a vehicle utilized by unspecified users; and obtaining desired location information indicating desired locations at which the users desire to get on the vehicle or desired locations at which the users desire to get off the vehicle. Then, the controller of the information processing apparatus determines a stop location, at which the vehicle is stopped for the users to get on or off, based on a plurality of pieces of the desired location information and the route information, and presents stop location information indicating the stop location thus determined to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Xin Jin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Patent number: 11479081
    Abstract: The vehicle air conditioning apparatus comprises at least one physical condition information sensor which detects information on physical conditions of passengers in a vehicle as physical condition information. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus selectively executes an outside-air circulation control for discharging air from an interior of the vehicle to outside of the vehicle and introducing outside air to the interior of the vehicle from the outside of the vehicle and an interior-air circulation control for taking the air from the interior of the vehicle and returning the taken air to the interior of the vehicle. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus executes the outside-air circulation control when the electronic control unit determines that at least one of the passengers has an infection, based on the physical condition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fukazawa, Michio Ikeda, Kenta Miyahara, Masaru Ando
  • Publication number: 20220314974
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus executes a collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle. The apparatus determines whether a driver of the own vehicle has a collision self-avoidance probability that the driver can avoid the collision of the own vehicle with the object ahead of the own vehicle by carrying out a driving operation to the own vehicle. When the apparatus determines that the driver does not have the collision self-avoidance probability, the apparatus sets a start timing of starting executing the collision avoidance control to a timing earlier than the start timing set when the apparatus determines that the driver has the collision self-avoidance probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mafune KAKESHITA, Yumi SHIMANAKA, Sho HASHIMOTO, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220172263
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device. The information processing device receives identification information that identifies prescribed commodities that a user desires to purchase at a plurality affiliated stores, and specifies a commodity group that the user desires to purchase based on the identification information. When receiving indication information to indicate settlement of the commodity group, the information processing device is configured to execute settlement processing for the specified commodity group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220172153
    Abstract: A center server including a CPU is provided. The CPU instructs a vehicle to transport a product from a manufacturer of the product to a transportation destination, and instructs, after the vehicle has transported the product, the vehicle to transport an article related to the product from the transportation destination to the manufacturer, based on a demand for the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220171388
    Abstract: A transportation system is equipped with at least one self-propelled pallet that can move and that is loaded with a piece of luggage, a vehicle that accommodates the at least one self-propelled pallet, and an administrative server that commands the self-propelled pallet loaded with the piece of luggage to move to a place of reception of the piece of luggage, and that commands the self-propelled pallet loaded with no luggage to move to the vehicle after the piece of luggage is unloaded at the place of reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220172152
    Abstract: A center server including a CPU is provided. The CPU instructs a vehicle to transport a part from a supplier of the part to a supply destination, instructs, after the vehicle has transported the part, the vehicle to move from the supply destination to a stopover and to load another part at the stopover, and instructs the vehicle to deliver the other part to one or more delivery points located in a direction from the stopover toward the supplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220147923
    Abstract: An information processing device receives identification information for identifying a predetermined cargo handling operation which is performed at a base for loading or unloading cargo, identifies a user who is able to accept the cargo handling operation based on the identification information, and generates request information which is displayed to the identified user based on the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220147918
    Abstract: A delivery system includes a moving apparatus on which a parcel to be transferred to a predetermined region is loaded and that is capable of moving the parcel along a circulation route along which the moving apparatus circulates in the region. The delivery system acquires delivery information including position information about a delivery destination of the parcel, generates a delivery plan for delivering the parcel to the delivery destination, based on the acquired delivery information, and controls the moving apparatus such that the moving apparatus moves the parcel to the delivery destination on the circulation route based on the delivery plan and fulfills the transfer of the parcel when permission information indicating that the transfer of the parcel is permitted has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yanagihashi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220138687
    Abstract: A vehicle instruction device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire inventory information pertaining to an inventory of a commodity at a delivery destination, a delivery schedule pertaining to delivery of the commodity to the delivery destination by a delivery vehicle, and delivery information pertaining to a delivery status of the delivery vehicle, update the delivery schedule based on the inventory information and the delivery information, generate instruction information for entry to the delivery destination based on a priority level for receiving the commodity in the delivery schedule that has been updated, and notify the delivery vehicle of the instruction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Takaaki YANAGIHASHI, Hiroaki KIYOKAMI, Toru TAKASHIMA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Yohei TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220138637
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a controller configured to estimate a vacant time period during a period from a first time at which a first user checked-in at an accommodation facility to a second time at which the first user is to check-out from the accommodation facility, the vacant time period being a time period during which the accommodation facility is not used by the first user; and a communication interface configured to transmit vacancy data that indicates the vacant time period estimated by the controller, to a terminal apparatus of at least one second user that is different from the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Ayana Takeshita, Changyi Luo, Yuhei Suzuki, Sachin Ahire
  • Publication number: 20220128709
    Abstract: A position locating system for locating a current position of a mobile terminal includes an imaging section, an image acquisition section, a matching section, and a position locating section. The imaging section is configured to capture a surroundings image of surroundings of the mobile terminal using a camera provided at the mobile terminal. The image acquisition section is configured to acquire over a network images similar to the surroundings image and associated with position information regarding an imaging location. The matching section is configured to perform image matching between the surroundings image and the images acquired by the image acquisition section so as to find a single image that is a match for the surroundings image. The position locating section is configured to locate the current position of the mobile terminal from the position information associated with the single image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Takaaki YANAGIHASHI, Hiroaki KIYOKAMI, Toru TAKASHIMA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Yohei TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220130054
    Abstract: A position finding method including capturing respective images of multiple locations on a movement route of a moving body at the multiple locations, associating the respective images of the multiple locations with respective position information relating to the multiple locations, storing the respective images on a storage medium in association with the respective position information, capturing an image of a current position of the moving body from the moving body while the moving body is moving along the movement route, performing image matching between the current position image and the respective images stored on the storage medium, and finding the current position of the moving body based on a result of the image matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Takaaki YANAGIHASHI, Hiroaki KIYOKAMI, Toru TAKASHIMA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Yohei TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220121226
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire travel information including a travel route for when the vehicle travels and determine, based on the acquired travel information, transfer information for when a delivery item to be delivered by an unmanned aircraft to a user on board the vehicle is transferred to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada, Roger Kyle
  • Publication number: 20220121220
    Abstract: An unmanned conveying system includes: plural unmanned conveying vehicles that can convey cargo; a cargo priority order deciding section that decides upon a priority order in which the cargo are to be conveyed, in accordance with conditions of the cargo; and a traveling route setting section that decides upon traveling routes of the unmanned conveying vehicles on the basis of the priority order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Takaaki Yanagihashi, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Toru Takashima, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220107634
    Abstract: A vehicle self-driving system includes: a communication section provided separately from an unmanned self-driving vehicle configured to travel unmanned within a predefined area and a manned driven vehicle that has entered the predefined area and has completed a handover of driving authority, the communication section being configured to perform two-way wireless communication with the unmanned self-driving vehicle and the manned driven vehicle; and a control section configured to be handed driving authority from the manned driven vehicle by the wireless communication and to control respective movements of the unmanned self-driving vehicle and the manned driven vehicle based on the wireless communication, and further configured to effect control such that a communication cycle of the wireless communication with at least one of the unmanned self-driving vehicle or the manned driven vehicle is lengthened in cases in which a communication traffic volume of the wireless communication has exceeded a predefined value
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Takaaki YANAGIHASHI, Hiroaki KIYOKAMI, Toru TAKASHIMA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Yohei TANIGAWA