Patents by Inventor Masaki Ito

Masaki Ito 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: 20220277280
    Abstract: A merchandise registration apparatus includes: a first reading unit to form a first reading area in which a code symbol attached to merchandise can be read; a second reading unit provided at a location different from that of the first reading unit, and to form a second reading area overlapping with at least a part of the first reading area, in which the code symbol can be read; a first acquisition unit to acquire first code information; a second acquisition unit to acquire second code information; and a registration unit to register the merchandise based on the first code information and the second code information, if the first code information and the second code information match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yajima, Hidehiro Naito, Masaki Ito, Yuki Kawaguchi, Takahiro Saitou, Atsushi Miyashima, Toshihiro Kaneko, Taiki Tanihira
  • Publication number: 20220277309
    Abstract: A self-service commodity sales data processing device that includes a take-out determination unit for determining whether commodities were taken out simultaneously based on an image of a commodity taken out, a first identical termination unit for determining whether taken-out commodities are different commodities or identical commodities if the take-out determination unit determines that the commodities are taken out simultaneously, a reading unit for reading information of the taken-out commodities, a second identical determination unit for determining whether the commodities read by the reading unit are the identical commodity if the first identical determination unit determines that the taken-out commodities are different commodities, and a suspension unit for suspending the transaction if the second identical determination unit determines that the commodities are the identical commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yajima, Hidehiro Naito, Masaki Ito, Yuki Kawaguchi, Takahiro Saitou, Atsushi Miyashima, Toshihiro Kaneko, Taiki Tanihira
  • Publication number: 20220270099
    Abstract: A self-checkout system includes a commodity registration apparatus and a management server. The commodity registration apparatus includes a first storage device and a first processor. The first processor acquires an image of a customer at commodity registration apparatus and information related to commodity registration. The first processor detects possible fraud event based on the image and the registration information. Fraud points corresponding to the possible fraud are output to the management server in conjunction with customer identification information. The management server includes a second storage device and a second processor. The second processor accumulates the received fraud points in association with the customer identification information and stores accumulated total points for each customer in the second storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Hidehiro NAITO, Atsushi Miyashima, Toshihiro Kaneko, Yuki Kawaguchi, Taiki Tanihira, Shinsuke Yajima, Masaki Ito, Takahiro Saitou
  • Publication number: 20220261877
    Abstract: A merchandise registration device includes a lamp, a reading device reading a symbol on an item and providing identification information for the item, a weight sensor in a table on which a scanned item can be placed, and a processor. The processor performing a registration operation including acquiring identification information for the item and comparing an expected weight of the item to a measured weight from the weight sensor. The processor controlling the lamp to indicate progress states in the registration operation and whether the reading device is ready for reading a symbol for a next item in a sales transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hidehiro NAITO, Atsushi MIYASHIMA, Toshihiro KANEKO, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Taiki TANIHIRA, Shinsuke YAJIMA, Masaki ITO, Takahiro SAITOU
  • Publication number: 20220261783
    Abstract: A self-service point-of-sale (POS) terminal for a customer to register a commodity to be purchased in a store, includes an input device, a reading device configured to read a symbol on a commodity, a network interface configured to receive, from an external device operated by a store clerk or the like, instruction information that instructs output of caution information, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire commodity information about a commodity based on the symbol read by the reading device and register the commodity using the commodity information. Upon receipt of an input of completion of registration via the input device, the processor determines whether to proceed to payment processing for the registered commodity based on whether the instruction information has been received from the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hidehiro NAITO, Atsushi MIYASHIMA, Toshihiro KANEKO, Taiki TANIHIRA, Shinsuke YAJIMA, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Masaki ITO, Takahiro SAITOU
  • Publication number: 20220244065
    Abstract: The control device according to the present disclosure is a control device that controls a destination of a vehicle. The control device includes a processor that sets, upon acquiring occurrence information of a disaster, when the disaster has occurred at a first destination preset for an electric vehicle to be controlled or in a route to the first destination, a second destination different from the first destination, achieving the same purpose as the first destination, and at which no disaster has occurred, and a route to the second destination and in which no disaster has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220234453
    Abstract: A power supply control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that generates control information for preferentially supplying electric power to a wide traveling lane when information on a disaster is acquired in a plurality of traveling lanes in which a vehicle travels in the same direction, each of the traveling lanes having a different width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220212564
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is a control device configured to control charging and discharging of the power storage device included in a drive device. The control device includes a processor configured to determine whether the remaining capacity of the power storage device is able to reach the target charging capacity by a disaster occurrence predicted time when disaster information including the predicted time is acquired and is configured to calculate the discharge capacity that is able to be discharged by the predicted time when it is determined that the target charging capacity is able to be reached by the predicted time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220212558
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply device that supplies electric power to a motor-driven vehicle including a power storage device through one of wireless supply of electric power using a wireless system and wired supply of electric power using a wired system to the motor-driven vehicle. The power supply device includes a processor configured to perform control for recommending the supply of electric power using the wired system as a power supply system for the motor-driven vehicle when information on a disaster is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kizuku Yamada, Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Tomonori Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220153165
    Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220135034
    Abstract: A traveling control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that cancels a designation of type a vehicle that travels in each of a plurality of traveling lanes in which the vehicle travels in the same direction and for which the type of the vehicle that travels in each of the traveling lanes is designated, when information relating a disaster is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11319856
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery and a CO2 recovery device using electric power of the battery to recover CO2 contained in inflowing gas. A control device mounted in the vehicle controls the CO2 recovery device. The control device permits operation of the CO2 recovery device in the case where a high efficiency recovery condition, at which it is predicted that the efficiency of recovery of CO2, showing a ratio of the amount of recovery of CO2 in the CO2 recovery device with respect to the electric power consumed by the battery, will become equal to or greater than a preset predetermined efficiency, is satisfied, and prohibits operation of the CO2 recovery device in the case where the high efficiency recovery condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Hiroki Murata, Kazumasa Okamura, Toshihiro Nakamura, Kohei Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220111750
    Abstract: A first aspect of the present disclosure relates to a disaster-stricken area specification device including a processor configured to determine whether or not a disaster occurs at a place where power feed to a target to be charged is performed, based on power feed efficiency by noncontact charging to the target to be charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11294395
    Abstract: An accompanying vehicle selection system includes: a first vehicle that is provided with a driver's seat; a plurality of second vehicles that have different functions from the first vehicle, and that are configured to travel in accompaniment with the first vehicle; and a control unit that is provided in the first vehicle, and that determines, based on input information, which vehicle from among the plurality of second vehicles is to travel in accompaniment with the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yamada, Masaki Ito, Shotaro Inoue, Akihiro Muguruma, Michio Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11297711
    Abstract: A wiring circuit board sequentially includes a conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a shield layer toward one side in a thickness direction. The insulating layer covers the conductive layer and has an insulating opening portion exposing a part of a one-side surface in the thickness direction of the conductive layer, and the shield layer has a recessed portion disposed at the inside of the insulating opening portion and recessed toward the other side in the thickness direction so as to be in contact with the conductive layer. The shield layer sequentially includes an adhesive layer and a main body layer toward one side in the thickness direction. A ratio (Tb/Ta) of a thickness Tb of the main body layer to a thickness Ta of the adhesive layer is 4 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Shusaku Shibata, Hayato Takakura, Masaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11287273
    Abstract: A patrol system includes a vehicle and a server. The server includes: a first decision unit that decides a priority of each of a plurality of patrol points to be patrolled and located in a prescribed area, based on resident data including data of the number of residents living in the prescribed area and addresses of the residents; a second decision unit that decides a patrol route for patrolling the patrol points, based on map information of the prescribed area and the priorities; and a transmission unit that transmits the patrol route to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohei Obara, Masaki Ito, Makoto Kakuchi, Mutsumi Matsuura, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Yuichi Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20220091566
    Abstract: A CPU determines whether a first condition related to a current position of a subject is satisfied, determines whether a second condition different from the first condition and related to at least one of the current position of the subject and a motion state of the subject is satisfied, and controls a display mode of a display unit on the basis of a determination result as to whether the first condition is satisfied and a determination result as to whether the second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro KIUCHI, Yuuichi SAGOU, Masaki ITO, Kousuke ISHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 11284503
    Abstract: A wiring circuit board includes a support metal layer having thermal conductivity of 5 W/m·K or more, an insulating layer disposed on at least one side in a thickness direction of the support metal layer, a wiring layer disposed on a front surface of the insulating layer, a protective metal film disposed on the entire surface of the support metal layer between the support metal layer and the insulating layer, and a protective thin film disposed on an exposed surface exposed from the protective metal film in the support metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Naoki Shibata, Yasunari Oyabu, Kenya Takimoto
  • Publication number: 20220076226
    Abstract: A settlement device includes a packing unit located near a reading unit to pack a commodity, a symbol of which is read by a reading unit, a measuring unit to measure the packed commodity, a light emitting unit, determining means for determining, using data of weight measured, whether the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, and light-emission controller for, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a first form and, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is not packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a second form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Kawaguchi, Hidehiro Naito, Shinsuke Yajima, Daisuke Hattori, Masaki Ito, Takahiro Saitou, Kota Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220076544
    Abstract: A settlement apparatus includes a bagging unit located near a reading unit for bagging merchandise from which the symbol is read, a measuring unit that measures the bagged merchandise, a light emitting unit provided within a field of view of the bagging operator in the bagging unit, determining means for determining whether or not the merchandise read is bagged using data of a weight measured, and light emission control means for controlling the light emitting unit to emit alight in a first form when the merchandise read is determined as being bagged and controlling the light emitting unit to emit a light in a second form when the merchandise read is determined as being not bagged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Kawaguchi, Hidehiro Naito, Shinsuke Yajima, Daisuke Hattori, Masaki Ito, Takahiro Saitou, Kota Suzuki