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: 11488431
    Abstract: A key information management device includes: a key information distribution unit configured to distribute key information to a company that provides a delivery service that allows an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user to be designated as a delivery destination of a package, key information being used by a delivery person of the company to unlock a specified entrance of the vehicle, the building, or the facility; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the delivery person who delivers the package has reached within a specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility, wherein the key information distribution unit is configured to distribute the key information to the company when the determination unit determines that the delivery person has reached within the specified range of the vehicle, the building, or the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 11481173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is provided to display advertisement information on a display apparatus installed with a display surface directed to a road, is configured to execute acquisition of a traveling situation of a vehicle which travels on the road; selection of a first display form or a second display form having an amount of information larger than that of the first display form, as the display form of the advertisement information on the basis of the traveling situation; and display of the advertisement information on the display apparatus in the display form selected on the basis of the traveling situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11480442
    Abstract: An output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of a user is allowed to timely output information desired by the user. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is an information processing apparatus to be used by a mobile user, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller which executes acquisition of a content designated by the user; specification of an output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of the user; and transmission of the acquired content to the specified output apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20220327474
    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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yuichiro HARUNA
  • Patent number: 11470456
    Abstract: An information processing device 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 device includes a processing device 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 11467578
    Abstract: Provided is a moving object configured to move in an airport. The moving object includes a communication unit configured to acquire identification information of a user and second information acquisition means for acquiring information about a destination, to which baggage of the user is to be transported, from a server apparatus based on the identification information of the user. Furthermore, the moving object includes a control device for moving to the destination in a state where the baggage of the user is held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Katsuhiko Yourou, Shunji Tateishi, Nobukatsu Fujishita
  • Publication number: 20220315030
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagatani, Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220318743
    Abstract: A delivery assistance device assists in 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 luggage. The delivery assistance device includes a storage unit, a registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, a plurality of candidates as delivery destinations of the luggage and priorities for the candidates, and a delivery destination decision unit configured to decide an alternative delivery destination from among the candidates based on the priorities when a deliverer is not able to deliver a delivery destination with the highest priority among the delivery destinations, the delivery destination with the highest priority being designated by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yuichiro HARUNA
  • Publication number: 20220306137
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a standard driving model of a vehicle is stored in a model storage unit. A risk level determination unit compares a driving operation by a driver with a normative driving operation output from the standard driving model and determines a risk level of the driving operation. An operation limiting unit inputs, to a drive unit, a drive signal adjusted based on the determination by the risk level determination unit on the risk level of the driving operation by the driver so as to limit driving of the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11455610
    Abstract: A shopping support system includes a management server, a reservation device such as a shooter, an automatic sorter, and a register. The management server specifies a reserved product to be purchased in response to an operation input to the reservation device, controls the automatic sorter to pick up the reserved product to be purchased, transmits a price thereof to the register, and cause a moving object loaded with the settled product to move to a product receiving place by autonomous driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Katsuhiko Yourou, Shunji Tateishi, Nobukatsu Fujishita
  • Patent number: 11449823
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a pickup source determiner configured to determine an interior of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user of a predetermined pickup service, as a pickup source of a package in response to a request for picking up the package from a user terminal of the pickup service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Publication number: 20220291888
    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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo, Kenya Takagi
  • Publication number: 20220292886
    Abstract: A driving diagnosis device includes: an event display unit that displays a plurality of events 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 displayed on a display unit of an operation terminal by executing a game application, a change element that is generated in response to the event that is determined by the event determination unit to have been executed; a designation unit that designates a part of the events as a special event, in which the event display unit displays that the part of the events is the special event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220289197
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220288495
    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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20220289215
    Abstract: A driving diagnosis device acquires at least one of vehicle information regarding a vehicle state and driving information regarding a driving state of the driver, and measures the number of times each of conditions of preset evaluation items related to driving is met, based on the acquired vehicle information and the acquired driving information. Then, the driving diagnosis device outputs warning information when the number of measurement times of the evaluation items reaches a predetermined warning number corresponding to the one of the evaluation items. Further, the driving diagnosis device performs advance notification to the driver when a predetermined notification condition is satisfied before the number of measurement times reaches the warning number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11441922
    Abstract: A surrounding information collection system requests a vehicle to transmit surrounding information, and stores the surrounding information transmitted from the vehicle in response to the request. The surrounding information collection system requests a vehicle to transmit surrounding information, the vehicle acquiring the surrounding information having accuracy greater than a threshold calculated based on accuracy of the stored surrounding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Iwaasa, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamamuro, Masato Endo, Daishi Terato, Masakazu Nomura, Shinichiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11442452
    Abstract: A package delivery support system, a mobile unit, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program, a package delivery support method, and a package delivery support method are disclosed. The package delivery support system includes: a mobile unit prepared in an area; and a management device configured to manage the mobile unit, the management device including circuitry configured to acquire at least one of a delivery request to deliver a package loaded on the mobile unit and a pickup request to pick up a package with the mobile unit, and to supply the mobile unit with an instruction for causing the mobile unit to move to a location specified by the at least one of the delivery request and the pickup request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kaneko, Masato Endo, Shinji Sassa, Takahiro Shiga, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11433798
    Abstract: An article storage system includes a moving object configured to house an article and move on a road, and a server configured to manage information of the moving object and information of a user who uses the moving object, store user identification information for identifying the user and moving object identification information for identifying the moving object used by the user in association with each other, acquire a request from the user relating to housing of the article in the moving object or take-out of the article from the moving object, and when the request from the user is acquired, specify the moving object to be used by the user based on the user identification information and the moving object identification information and perform control such that the specified moving object moves from a predetermined place on the road to a place that is different from the predetermined place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kaneko, Masato Endo, Shinji Sassa, Takahiro Shiga, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11420519
    Abstract: Provided is a movable system including a movable body to be used by a plurality of users, and a server device. When the server device receives identification information of a user from the movable body, the server device acquires setting information to set the form of the movable body based on the identification information of the user and transmits it to the movable body. The movable body includes a form changing unit configured to change the outer shape or the appearance of the movable body based on the setting information thus received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Katsuhiko Yourou, Shunji Tateishi, Nobukatsu Fujishita