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: 11654930
    Abstract: A display control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a browsing history including a record indicating that vehicle driving information corresponding to each of a plurality of display elements was displayed on the display unit of each of the driver of a vehicle and a manager who manages the driver, an identification unit configured to identify a specific element from among the display elements based on the difference between the number of browses by the driver and the number of browses by the manager that are recorded in the browsing history acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit of at least one of the driver and the manager to display the specific element with the display form of the specific element, identified by the identification unit, made different from the display form of the other display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagatani, Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11651385
    Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to acquire, from a plurality of terminals that are preset, evaluation information indicating an evaluation for a terminal other than an own terminal among the plurality of terminals, the evaluation information being generated by the own terminal, calculate reward amounts for the respective terminals based on the evaluation information, and deposit electronic money corresponding to the reward amounts to electronic wallets associated with the respective terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Okazaki, Masato Endo, Mayumi Kurita, Masashi Toritani, Kumiko Matsuura, Takayuki Shikoda, Masaaki Otsuka, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 11645607
    Abstract: A delivery assistance device assists in an operation of a delivery service in which the inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility that is used by a purchaser is designated as a delivery destination of one or more products purchased via a predetermined website regarding electronic commerce. The delivery assistance device includes a controller configured to transmit delivery destination information on the vehicle, the building, or the facility for designating the inside of the vehicle, the building, or the facility that is used by the user as a delivery destination of the product to an external device or a terminal at which the user browses the website when the controller receives user information indicating that the user intends to order the one or more products in the website from the external device operating the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 11620606
    Abstract: An information processing device performs an operation of a delivery service in which a vehicle cabin including a trunk of a vehicle used by a requester is designated as a delivery destination of luggage, or assists in the operation. The information processing device includes a vehicle position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, a requester position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of a mobile terminal carried by a requester, and a delivery countermeasure decision unit configured to decide a procedure regarding delivery work of the luggage based on the position information of the vehicle and the position information of the mobile terminal carried by the requester when the vehicle is parked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 11597454
    Abstract: A vehicle for transporting cargo includes a front end unit having a front wheel, a rear end unit having a rear wheel, and a carrying unit on which the cargo is loaded and which is interposed between the front end unit and the rear end unit so that the front end unit and the rear end unit are coupled to each other via the carrying unit. The carrying unit is configured to be separated from the front end unit and the rear end unit in a direction intersecting a direction in which the vehicle travels and to be coupled to the front end unit and the rear end unit while the front end unit and the rear end unit are stationary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kaneko, Masato Endo, Shinji Sassa, Takahiro Shiga, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20230054840
    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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230025611
    Abstract: A part diagnostic device includes an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information on a vehicle, an analysis unit that analyzes a vehicle characteristic of the vehicle from the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a determination unit that determines whether a part related to the vehicle characteristic is a genuine part based on the vehicle characteristic analyzed by the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230028145
    Abstract: A center server serving as an information processing device is configured such that a processor calculates a reduction cost by which an operation cost of a vehicle of a business operator in a first predetermined period is reduced compared to an operation cost of a vehicle of the same period of a previous year, sets a rank in accordance with a reduction result of each of the members regarding the reduction cost, and determines a reward of the member based on the reduction cost in accordance with the rank of the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230021612
    Abstract: In an information provision server as an information provision device, a processor is configured to receive vehicle information on a vehicle, generate maintenance recommendation information for prompting a user to implement maintenance of the vehicle based on the vehicle information, and provide the user with the maintenance recommendation information and value information that is usable when the maintenance is implemented based on the maintenance recommendation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20230026138
    Abstract: In a vehicle information management system, a maintenance information determination unit determines whether maintenance of a vehicle was carried out at a predetermined maintenance shop based on maintenance history information acquired by a maintenance history information database, and when the maintenance information determination unit determines that the maintenance of the vehicle was carried out at the predetermined maintenance shop, an added value information providing unit provides added value information to appraisal information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11560164
    Abstract: A mobile unit control system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire operation information on transportation located around the traveling area of a mobile unit that a user gets on and off while the mobile unit is traveling and a setting unit configured to set the traveling route or the traveling speed of the mobile unit based on the operation information on transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Okubi, Makoto Honda, Masato Endo, Tadaaki Sakamoto, Takuya Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220417712
    Abstract: An information processing system relates to a delivery service in which a vehicle cabin including a trunk of a vehicle used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package. The information processing system includes a center server configured to remind the user to receive the package from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle designated by the user as the delivery destination of the package, in a case where the package is not received from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle after a predetermined time has elapsed since the package was delivered to the vehicle cabin of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yuichiro HARUNA
  • Publication number: 20220405421
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; an identification unit that identifies a driver of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; a management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of driver information relevant to the driver identified by the identification unit; and an acceptance unit that accepts a selection about a management method for the driver information by the management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yukinori II, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220406105
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a decision unit that decides upper limits of respective individual evaluation values for a plurality of calculation items such that a total of the upper limits is a previously determined value, the individual evaluation values being relevant to driving of a driver, the calculation items being calculation items for which the individual evaluation values are calculated; an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; a calculation unit that calculates the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items within the upper limits decided by the decision unit, based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items that are calculated by the calculation unit and a total evaluation value that is a total of the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chisato SUGIURA, Ai ITO, Akihito NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Takaaki NAGATANI, Shuhei MANABE, Masato ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220405814
    Abstract: A center server as an information processing device includes a processor configured to detect a predetermined event based on vehicle information on a vehicle, calculate a cost for each detected event, calculate a decrease amount obtained by subtracting the total cost, which is the sum of the costs for a predetermined period, from the total cost for the past predetermined period, and calculate a usage amount of a service that provides information on driving behaviors of a driver who drives the vehicle based on the calculated decrease amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Masato ENDO
  • Patent number: 11517134
    Abstract: A movable body is configured to receive a package at a first location and wait for a recipient at a second location that is different from the first location. The movable body includes: a body configured to perform autonomous driving; a storage box attached to the body, the storage box being configured to temporarily store the package; and a controller configured to move the body from the first location to the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Katsuhiko Yourou, Shunji Tateishi, Nobukatsu Fujishita
  • Patent number: 11484143
    Abstract: A movable body is configured to receive a package at a first location and wait for a recipient at a second location that is different from the first location. The movable body includes: a body configured to perform autonomous driving; a storage box attached to the body, the storage box being configured to temporarily store the package; and a controller configured to move the body from the first location to the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Katsuhiko Yourou, Shunji Tateishi, Nobukatsu Fujishita