Patents by Inventor Kento NITTA

Kento NITTA 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: 20230009034
    Abstract: The illumination device has a plurality of light-emitting pixels which are individually on/off controllable, and emits a reference light having a random intensity distribution. The photodetector detects light reflected from an object. The processing device reconstructs an image of the object OBJ, by calculating a correlation between a detection intensity b based on an output of the photodetector, and the intensity distribution I of the reference light. The plurality of light-emitting pixels are divided into the m (m?2) areas each containing n (n?2) adjoining light-emitting pixels. By selecting one light-emitting pixel from each of the m areas without overlapping, the n light-emitting pixel groups are determined. The imaging apparatus carries out sensing for every light-emitting pixel group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta HARUSE, Shintaro SUGIMOTO, Teruaki TORII, Kento NITTA
  • Publication number: 20220364875
    Abstract: A method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information indicating use records of a user for each of a plurality of transportations, acquiring second information indicating preference levels of the user for each of the transportations, and outputting third information suggesting the user to use at least one transportation among the transportations, based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220333941
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication interface; and one or more processors configured to when determining that a degree of dirt of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined first threshold value, select at least one vehicle washing facility from among a plurality of vehicle washing facilities, based on an attribute of a user of the vehicle, and notify the user of guidance information for guiding the user to the selected vehicle washing facility via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220335832
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicable with the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: detect the vehicle before parking; determine the characteristic of the detected vehicle or the characteristic of a driver of the vehicle; set a parking frame for the vehicle in accordance with the characteristic; and transmit information indicating the parking frame to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220261726
    Abstract: A method to be executed by an information processing device includes: determining whether a state of charge of a first vehicle parked in a parking space provided with charging equipment is equal to or higher than a first threshold; determining whether a future demand for the charging equipment is high based on a predetermined criterion; and outputting an instruction to move the first vehicle from the parking space when determining that the state of charge of the first vehicle is equal to or higher than the first threshold and the future demand for the charging equipment is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220261718
    Abstract: An information processing device configured to communicate with a vehicle. The information processing device includes a controller configured to: determine a scheduled pickup date and time of a first vehicle to be parked in a parking lot; determine a scheduled pickup date and time of a second vehicle parked in the parking lot; and present a space adjacent to the second vehicle in a leaving direction of the second vehicle to the first vehicle as a parkable spot when the scheduled pickup date and time of the first vehicle is earlier than the scheduled pickup date and time of the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220258726
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire movement information on movement of a vehicle where a user is not on board, the movement information including position information of a movement destination; a storage configured to store the movement information of the vehicle that is acquired by the acquirer; and a controller configured to: generate route information indicating time-series positions of the vehicle based on the movement information stored in the storage; and transmit the route information to an information terminal of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220244389
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus, a distance measurement sensor detects the distance to a target TGT. An illumination apparatus sequentially irradiates reference light S1 having a spatially random intensity distribution. A photodetector measures reflected light S2 from an object OBJ. A calculation processing device applies a time window that corresponds to an output of the distance measurement sensor to an output of the photodetector, and calculates a correlation between the detection intensity based on the signal included in the time window and the intensity distribution of the reference light so as to reconstruct a reconstructed image of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento NITTA, Shintaro SUGIMOTO, Yuta HARUSE, Teruaki TORII
  • Publication number: 20220132022
    Abstract: Patterning device modulates a light beam intensity distribution according to two-gradation first image data having a first number of pixels. Processing device calculates a correlation between detection intensity b based on output of photodetector and m-gradation (m?2) random second image data having a second number of pixels smaller than the first number, to generate a reconstructed image G(x,y) of an object. When the first and second image data are scaled to the same size and overlapped, each pixel is associated with a pixel group including multiple pixels of the overlapping first image data. With the normalized gradation value of a given pixel as k, the number of pixels included in the pixel group as L, and the number of pixels having a value of 1 in the pixel group as l, l=L×k holds true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruaki Torii, Yuta Haruse, Shintaro Sugimoto, Kento Nitta
  • Publication number: 20220044170
    Abstract: An object is to manage work by a plurality of crew members who perform predetermined work on board a vehicle among a plurality of vehicles. An information processing apparatus manages the work by the plurality of crew members who perform the predetermined work on board a vehicle among a plurality of vehicles. The information processing apparatus determines a crew order that is an order of priority for each of the plurality of crew members to board a vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the crew order being determined in order of a longest elapsed time since each of the plurality of crew members previously exited a vehicle among the plurality of vehicles. Additionally, the information processing apparatus transmits schedule information including the crew order to a plurality of first terminals respectively associated with the plurality of crew members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki KANEICHI, Takuma FUTOHASHI, Kento NITTA
  • Publication number: 20220041188
    Abstract: An object is to manage work by a mover who works to move vehicles. A predetermined region is provided with a stopping spots of different types where the vehicles stop, and a movement order that is an order of priority related to the movement of a vehicle from one stopping spot to another stopping spot is predetermined on the basis of the type of the one stopping spot and the type of the other stopping spot. An information processing apparatus determines a vehicle order that is an order of priority related to the movement of each of target vehicles to be moved by the mover who works to move the vehicles inside the predetermined region among the vehicles, on the basis of the type of a current stopping spot and the type of a destination stopping spot for each of the target vehicles and the movement order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki KANEICHI, Takuma FUTOHASHI, Kento NITTA