Patents by Inventor Kotoru SATO
Kotoru SATO 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).
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Publication number: 20240140454Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
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Publication number: 20240132090Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
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Publication number: 20240131895Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kotoru SATO
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Patent number: 11904722Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire a starting time representing a time when a user starts to use a moving object including a rechargeable secondary battery; estimate a charging completion time by which a required amount of power is charged to the moving object; determine whether or not charging of the moving object is completed by the starting time based on the starting time and the charging completion time; and switch a charging mode of charging the moving object performed by a charging device from a usual charging mode to a rapid charging mode in a case where the charging of the moving object is not completed by the starting time.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Kotoru Sato, Kumiko Katsumata, Shun Ota, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 11898863Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to acquire a user's destination, estimate a user's staying time at the destination based on the destination, determine whether to move a moving body used by the user based on the staying time, and control driving of the moving body.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Kotoru Sato, Kumiko Katsumata, Shun Ota, Takahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230016961Abstract: A data collection device collects data in a predetermined target area by using a plurality of mobile bodies that is able to move within the target area and acquire data. The data collection device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires area information regarding the target area; and a mobile body management unit that changes a collection location of the data based on the area information and that dispatches at least one mobile body among the mobile bodies to a specific location in the target area associated with the area information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki KODERA, Yoichiro ISAMI, Kotoru SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Naohiro SEO
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Publication number: 20220377284Abstract: In an information collecting system, an information collecting device managed by the designated institution sets information acquisition spaces where acquisition of personal information of residents in the region is allowed and information acquisition prohibited spaces where acquisition of personal information of residents is prohibited, the information collecting device transmits space information corresponding to spaces in which information acquisition terminals are located, for information acquisition terminals which are located in information acquisition spaces and information acquisition prohibited spaces and which allow acquisition of personal information of residents, and the information acquisition terminal determines that personal information acquired by an information acquisition terminal is not to be transmitted to an information collecting device when the information acquisition terminal is located in an information acquisition prohibited space, based on the received space information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Hiroaki KODERA, Yoichiro ISAMI, Kotoru SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Naohiro SEO
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Publication number: 20220169143Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire a starting time representing a time when a user starts to use a moving object including a rechargeable secondary battery; estimate a charging completion time by which a required amount of power is charged to the moving object; determine whether or not charging of the moving object is completed by the starting time based on the starting time and the charging completion time; and switch a charging mode of charging the moving object performed by a charging device from a usual charging mode to a rapid charging mode in a case where the charging of the moving object is not completed by the starting time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220169120Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire a starting position where a user starts to use a moving object including a rechargeable secondary battery, and a destination of the user; estimate a power amount for the moving object to move from the starting position to the destination; determine whether or not power of the secondary battery is consumed at the destination; increase the power amount when the power of the secondary battery is consumed at the destination; and charge the moving object to the power amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220164775Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire schedule information on each of a plurality of users; set a charging priority at a time of charging each of a plurality of moving objects based on the schedule information on each of the plurality of users, each of the plurality of moving objects being preliminarily associated with each of the plurality of users, and including a rechargeable secondary battery; and charge each of the plurality of moving objects based on the charging priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220161679Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire user schedule information indicating an action schedule of a user and other person schedule information indicating an action schedule of another person associated with the user; estimate, based on the user schedule information, a power amount for a moving object that the user is allowed to use, the moving object including a rechargeable secondary battery; and control a charging device to charge the moving object based on the power amount and the other person schedule information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220120576Abstract: A server includes a processor to acquire a current position of a moving body used by a user, a remaining battery level of a rechargeable battery of the moving body used by the user, and a first destination of the user, and in a case where a new second destination different from the first destination is input, set, for the moving body, a charging travelling route passing a charging path capable of charging the battery on a way from the current position to the second destination based on the remaining battery level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220120577Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to acquire a user's destination, estimate a user's staying time at the destination based on the destination, determine whether to move a moving body used by the user based on the staying time, and control driving of the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220111739Abstract: A server 40 includes a control unit 47, and the control unit 47 acquires respective planned use positions of plural users, respective destinations of the plural users, and remaining battery levels of rechargeable batteries of moving bodies which the plural users are scheduled to use, estimates, for each of the moving bodies, a required power amount of the battery based on the planned use position and the destination, determines, for each of the moving bodies, whether the remaining battery level is equal to or greater than the required power amount, and dispatches the moving body whose remaining battery level is equal to or greater than the required power amount to the planned use position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SUGIMOTO, Kotoru SATO, Kumiko KATSUMATA, Shun OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220001884Abstract: A vehicle-mounted processing device of learning-use data including a data acquisition unit acquiring data relating to operation of the vehicle, a neural network storage unit storing a neural network which outputs output values relating to operational control of the vehicle if data which was acquired at the data acquisition unit is input, and a learning-use data storage unit storing learning-use data of weights of the neural network. If the frequency of learning of the weights of the neural network on the vehicle or the frequency of transmission of the learning-use data to the server becomes lower, the amount of storage per unit time of the learning-use data successively stored in the learning-use data storage unit or the amount of the learning-use data which finishes being stored in the learning-use data storage unit is made to decrease.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Yohei NAKANISHI, Kotoru SATO
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Publication number: 20210390406Abstract: A machine learning apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires third data including first data and second data, the first data including at least one of parameter data collected for a plurality of collection devices and teacher data created from the parameter data, and the second data which are associated with the first data and which represent collection conditions of the parameter data; a selection unit that selects specific data from the third data; and a learning unit that performs machine learning using the specific data, and generates a trained model which is to be used for a target device. Further, the selection unit selects the specific data which are associated with the collection conditions in which a difference between usage conditions of the trained model for the target device and the collection conditions in the collection devices is equal to or less than a predetermined reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Kotoru SATO, Daiki YOKOYAMA