Patents by Inventor Masato Endo

Masato Endo 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: 11946764
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11941921
    Abstract: A maintenance information management device includes an information registration unit configured to register vehicle identification information and maintenance information in a memory for each vehicle, an information update unit configured to update the maintenance information after the maintenance of the vehicle by adding maintenance contents to the maintenance information registered in the memory, and an information providing unit configured to provide the maintenance information when a provision request for the maintenance information is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11941314
    Abstract: A display control device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information regarding a plurality of driving evaluation items set in advance; count, as the number of times of measurement, the number of times that at least one of a vehicle state and a driving state meets each of the driving evaluation items while a driver is driving a vehicle; display the driving evaluation items in a display region in a vehicle cabin; and visually display information relating to the remaining number of times that is a difference between the permissible number of times set for each of the driving evaluation items and the number of times of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo, Kenya Takagi
  • Patent number: 11925867
    Abstract: A processor is capable of assessing plural driving assessment items with mutually different details on the basis of driving operations of a vehicle. A game is displayed at a display part of an operation terminal by execution of a game application. The processor assigns modification factors generated in accordance with assessment results of the driving assessment items to a character in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20240075940
    Abstract: An individual characteristics management device includes: a data acquiring section acquiring driving data relating to a plurality of driving evaluation items that are set in advance, and an individual characteristics estimating section estimating individual characteristics of a driver based on the driving data acquired by the data acquiring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shuhei MANABE, Masato ENDO
  • Patent number: 11915188
    Abstract: A delivery server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product; transmit, in a case where unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user; transmit the signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal; and transmit delivery completion information of the product to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Okazaki, Masato Endo, Mayumi Kurita, Masashi Toritani, Kumiko Matsuura, Takayuki Shikoda, Masaaki Otsuka, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 11912280
    Abstract: A driving diagnosis device includes: an event display unit that displays at least one event that is executed while a vehicle is driven; an event determination unit that determines whether the event is executed; a change element giving unit that gives, to a character of a game that is displayed on a display unit of an operation terminal by executing a game application, a change element generated in response to the event determined to be executed by the event determination unit; and a determination prohibition unit that causes the event determination unit not to determine that the same event is executed, when the same event is executed after the number of times the same event is executed exceeds a limited number of times that is a predetermined plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11907951
    Abstract: A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: acquire store position information of a store where a user has entered; acquire store information in which position information of each of a plurality of stores and one or more settlement methods available in each of the plurality of stores are associated; and notify a terminal owned by the user of the settlement method available in the store where the user has entered based on the store position information and the store information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Okazaki, Masato Endo, Mayumi Kurita, Masashi Toritani, Kumiko Matsuura, Takayuki Shikoda, Masaaki Otsuka, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240054825
    Abstract: A individual characteristics management system includes: first storage installed at a vehicle and storing first data relating to individual characteristics of a user; second storage provided at an exterior of the vehicle and storing second data relating to the individual characteristics; and a controller updating the first data and the second data respectively based on a driving state of the user, wherein the controller updates, during driving by the user and based on a driving vehicle, the first data stored in the first storage, and updates the second data based on the updated first data and the second data stored in the second storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025434
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing device includes: a reception unit that receives a selection of a user of an introduction mode of a setting related to driving assistance of a vehicle; and a setting change unit that applies the setting to the vehicle under a predetermined condition in accordance with the selection by the user, the selection being a selection that has been received by the reception unit, when the user selects an introduction mode for trial usage in which the setting is applied to the vehicle under the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240025432
    Abstract: A personalization setting unit requests a new driver for setting whether to use a personalization function that is able to change a set value of a driver assistance function to a recommended value for each driver assistance function when the new driver is registered in a driver information registration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025433
    Abstract: A driver information registration unit can register driver information of a vehicle. A personalization data storage unit (registered driver data storage unit) stores a driving history for each registered driver who is a driver registered in the driver information registration unit. An additional function extraction unit extracts an additional assistance function that is a driver assistance function that can be newly added for each registered driver based on the driving history. A display control unit can output a proposal image that proposes the registered driver an acquisition of the additional assistance function to a center panel display (display unit).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240029583
    Abstract: An information processing device comprising a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire vehicle information related to a vehicle, and, from among a plurality of instances of evaluation information including praise information for praising driving of a driver of the vehicle and including criticism information for criticizing the driving of the driver, cause one of the instances of evaluation information to be output from an output section provided in the vehicle, during driving of the vehicle, based on the acquired vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiya KUSHIBIKI, Kota WASHIO, Akihito NAKAMURA, Takashi HATTORI, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240025431
    Abstract: When there is a new driving assistance function for a registered driver, which is a driving assistance function enabled for the first time for the relevant registered driver among a plurality of driving assistance functions to be enabled for registered drivers, a test executor executes a driving ability test according to the new driving assistance function for the relevant registered driver. A personalization setter determines recommended setting values of the new driving assistance function based on the result of the driving ability test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240025437
    Abstract: A personalization setting unit sets enable and disable of a personalization function that allows the set value to be changed to a recommended value for each of the driver assistance functions and for each driver registered in the driver information registration unit. A recommended value calculation unit obtains the recommended value based on driving-related information of the driver including a driving history. A change condition setting unit sorts a plurality of the recommended values into an approval type recommended value that requires an approval of the driver and an automatic change type recommended value that does not require the approval of the driver. A display control unit is able to display an approval screen for the approval type recommended value on a center display that is a display unit, and suspends display of the approval screen while the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai SADAKUNI, Masato ENDO, Yuko HIRATSUKA, Akihito NAKAMURA, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240020749
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing device includes: a package information acquisition unit that acquires package information about a combination of setting items selected from a plurality of setting items related to driving assistance; a link generation unit that generates a link that allows access to the acquired package information; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information about a vehicle of a user who has accessed the link; and a determination unit that determines whether the combination of the setting items is applicable to the vehicle based on the acquired vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KSBUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko MASUDA, Shuhei MANABE, Akihito NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240013135
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to perform an operation of a delivery service in which an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package, or perform a support of the operation. The information processing device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an accommodation situation of an object accommodated inside the vehicle, the building, or the facility, and an accommodation situation notification unit configured to notify the user of the accommodation situation based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yuichiro HARUNA
  • Publication number: 20230417209
    Abstract: A remote start system includes: a terminal; a center server configured to receive a startup request; and a vehicle having a driving device, the vehicle configured to receive a startup request, and start up the driving device, wherein at least one of the center server and the vehicle includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on transmission availability state of a power transmission device that transmits power of the driving device in the vehicle to driving wheels, or information on an operation state of a rotation prevention device that prevents rotation of the driving wheels when a function of transmitting the startup request is activated or when the startup request is transmitted, and a permission determination unit configured to determine whether to permit the startup of the driving device based on the startup request, based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TAMANE, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230401903
    Abstract: A driving diagnostic device including a processor installed in a vehicle that also includes an information acquisition section configured to acquire vehicle related information related to the vehicle. The processor is capable of wirelessly transmitting the vehicle related information to a first driving diagnostic section that is provided not in the vehicle and that is configured to perform a first driving diagnosis of the vehicle using the vehicle related information acquired from the information acquisition section and is capable of executing a second driving diagnosis of the vehicle using the vehicle related information received from the information acquisition section by utilizing a network of the vehicle. The processor also decides whether to transmit the vehicle related information to the first driving diagnostic section or to receive the vehicle related information based on a mode of the first driving diagnosis or the second driving diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Shuhei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20230401979
    Abstract: The driving diagnostic device of the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires traveling data indicating a traveling state of a vehicle; a driving evaluation unit that evaluates a driving operation of the driver based on the traveling data acquired by the acquisition unit; a passenger presence-absence detection unit that detects presence or absence of a passenger in the vehicle; and a notification unit that notifies a driver of a driving evaluation result detected by the driving evaluation unit, wherein the notification unit changes a notification method of the driving evaluation result based on a detection result of the passenger presence-absence detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Masato ENDO