Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Hayashi

Masatoshi Hayashi 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: 20240149903
    Abstract: The purpose is to prevent inappropriate reporting of agitated driving. A controller, comprising at least one processor, of the information processing apparatus detects a predetermined action included in an act of aggressive driving by a second vehicle traveling within a predetermined range from a first vehicle. The controller of the information processing apparatus executes a predetermined discrimination process to determine whether or not the driving conditions of the first vehicle at time when the predetermined action is detected are appropriate for a traffic rules. When the controller determines in the predetermined discrimination process that the driving situation of the first vehicle is appropriate for the traffic rules, the controller outputs the first information to notify the predetermined agency that the second vehicle is driving in an agitated manner toward the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Masatoshi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11975717
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a detector and a processor. The detector is configured to detect a first stop line on the basis of map data stored in a road map database, and detect a second stop line on the basis of traveling environment data acquired by a camera unit. In a case where the detector detects the first stop line, the processor is configured to control a vehicle to decelerate at a first deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the first stop line. In a case where the detector detects the second stop line after detecting the first stop line, the processor is configured to control the vehicle to decelerate at a second deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the second stop line and stop at the second stop line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Innami, Masatoshi Minakawa, Daiki Koike, Toshihiro Hayashi, Ryo Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 11938945
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles, and a server communicable with the one or more vehicles. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a road on which a host vehicle is located. The vehicle or the server determines a degree of difficulty in traveling on the road due to snow cover from the image. The server stores the degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads, and provides information to a client by using the stored degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11904808
    Abstract: The present disclosure causes security at the time of transferring a vehicle to be improved, in a vehicle system using an electronic key. The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle configured to perform authentication for a mobile apparatus based on an electronic key acquired from the mobile apparatus. Use situations of the electronic keys issued to the two or more mobile apparatuses are acquired; and the authentication performed for any of the two or more mobile apparatuses is invalidated when the use situations satisfy predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Patent number: 11893842
    Abstract: First data indicating performance of authentication that is performed by a first apparatus that performs authentication based on an electronic key acquired from a mobile apparatus is acquired, and second data including an operation command for a second apparatus is generated based on the first data, and the second data is transmitted to the second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Publication number: 20240040352
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicle; and a server that is able to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles performs: generating a moving image in which a person outside the vehicle appears; and transmitting the moving image and an imaging time and an imaging position of the moving image to the server. The server performs: specifying two or more target moving images in which the same person appears out of a plurality of moving images received from the plurality of vehicles; detecting behavior of the person from the two or more target moving images; estimating attribute information of the person based on the detected behavior; and transmitting the estimated attribute information of the person and the imaging time and the imaging position of at least one of the target moving images to a client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20240013132
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a mobile object for delivering a delivery article by placing the delivery article at a delivery position. The controller is configured to determine the delivery position based on environmental information for a delivery destination and control the mobile object to place the delivery article at the delivery position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230421384
    Abstract: A vehicle that autonomously delivers a package includes a control unit that executes communication with an electronic signature issuing machine installed at a delivery destination for collating the package with the delivery destination, acquires an electronic signature from the electronic signature issuing machine when a collation is achieved between the package and the delivery destination, and drives the vehicle such that the package is left at the delivery destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230409029
    Abstract: A vehicle that autonomously delivers a package includes a control unit that captures a first image when the vehicle leaves the package at a first position and transmits the first image to a user and drives the vehicle such that a delivery point is corrected from the first position to a second position based on correction information for correcting the delivery point, the correction information being information from the user who has confirmed the first image, when receiving the correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230405832
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a control unit that determines whether or not to stack the package based on the package information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke Yamane, Daigo Fujii, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takurou Sakai
  • Patent number: 11818635
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicle; and a server that is able to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles performs: generating a moving image in which a person outside the vehicle appears; and transmitting the moving image and an imaging time and an imaging position of the moving image to the server. The server performs: specifying two or more target moving images in which the same person appears out of a plurality of moving images received from the plurality of vehicles; detecting behavior of the person from the two or more target moving images; estimating attribute information of the person based on the detected behavior; and transmitting the estimated attribute information of the person and the imaging time and the imaging position of at least one of the target moving images to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11790703
    Abstract: A method to be executed by a server includes acquiring first vehicle information, which is information regarding a vehicle before use of the vehicle for disaster relief, acquiring second vehicle information, which is information regarding the vehicle after use of the vehicle for disaster relief, and notifying an administrator of the vehicle of information regarding a difference between the acquired first vehicle information and the acquired second vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hayashi, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Shintaro Matsutani
  • Patent number: 11748996
    Abstract: An information processing system is equipped with at least one vehicle and a server that can communicate with the at least one vehicle. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a landscape outside the vehicle, a humidity outside the vehicle, and an imaging position of the image. The vehicle or the server generates floating substance information on an atmospheric floating substance around the vehicle, based on the image and the humidity. The server stores at least one pair of the floating substance information and the imaging position corresponding thereto, and provides information to a client through the use of the at least one pair of the stored floating substance information and the stored imaging position corresponding thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20230196260
    Abstract: A vehicle configured to autonomously deliver a package includes a control unit configured to acquire designation information generated along with designation by a user about an unattended delivery location for delivery of the package, and drive the vehicle to place the package at the unattended delivery location designated by the user when the unattended delivery location is identified by verifying the unattended delivery location based on the acquired designation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Josuke YAMANE, Daigo FUJII, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takurou SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11587442
    Abstract: An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. Each of the vehicles generates a video obtained by imaging outside scenery in association with a time and transmit the video and position information of a host vehicle at a time when the video is generated to the server. The server detects attribute information of a person in the video from the video and detects position information of the person at the time based on the position information of the host vehicle at the time when the video is generated, when the video and the position information are received from the host vehicle. The server specifies the same person appearing in two or more videos of videos respectively received from the vehicles and transmits the attribute information of the specified person and movement path information including time-series data of the position information of the person to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11557159
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to perform obtaining result data indicating a result of locking and unlocking performed by a locking and unlocking device that performs locking and unlocking based on authentication information obtained from a portable terminal carried by a user, and generating, based on the result data, proposal data including a proposal for a service to be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Patent number: 11551495
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for managing an electronic key compatible with a locking/unlocking apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: acquire terminal data that is data for notifying of a state of a first mobile terminal that uses the electronic key, and transmit, based on the terminal data, the electronic key corresponding to the first mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal different from the first mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Publication number: 20220371598
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a vehicle power supply apparatus including a processor. When a disaster by which foreign matter might be deposited on a road occurs, the processor preferentially performs power supply to a road maintenance vehicle configured to perform maintenance on the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Yuko KIMURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hideki NAKAZONO, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11462057
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including: a roadside apparatus placed at an entrance or an exit of a toll road or a pay facility; a display apparatus placed at the entrance or the exit; and a server capable of communicating with the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes: a radio communicator performing predetermined radio communications with an onboard apparatus loaded on the vehicle passing through the entrance or the exit; a communicator communicating with the server; and a processor transmitting user information regarding a user owning the vehicle received from the onboard apparatus via the radio communicator to the server via the communicator. The server includes a processor that: receives user information; when the user information is the user information regarding an advertiser, acquires advertisement information corresponding to the advertiser; and transmits an instruction to display the advertisement information on the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hayashi, Shugen Yamamura, Kosuke Yoshida, Hiroto Inoue, Yoshino Yamamori
  • Patent number: 11453367
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is able to communicate with the vehicle. The server stores weather information indicating the weather. The vehicle receives the weather information from the server and acquires an image in which a scene outside the vehicle is captured when an operating state of an onboard device is not a prescribed operating state corresponding to the weather indicated by the weather information. The vehicle or the server detects the weather from the image. The server updates the weather information to indicate the weather detected from the image when the weather detected from the image and the weather indicated by the weather information do not match and provides information to a client using the updated weather information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato