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).

  • Patent number: 11447100
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which controls locking and unlocking of a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: in a case where there is an unlocking request from a first mobile terminal located outside the vehicle, receiving a first electronic key from the first mobile terminal to perform first authentication and unlocking the vehicle on condition that the first authentication is successful; and in a case where the first mobile terminal is located inside the vehicle, and there is an unlocking request from a second mobile terminal located outside the vehicle, receiving a second electronic key from the second mobile terminal to perform second authentication, receiving the first electronic key from the first mobile terminal located inside the vehicle to perform third authentication, and unlocking the vehicle on condition that both the second authentication and the third authentication are successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Publication number: 20220250627
    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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20220230124
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores primary information regarding a plurality of relief vehicles that can be dispatched to a facility located in a disaster area in case of a disaster and secondary information regarding a plurality of drivers who can drive relief vehicles in case of a disaster. The controller is configured to acquire tertiary information regarding a facility located in a disaster area in need of relief and perform processing for determining a combination of a relief vehicle included in the plurality of relief vehicles and a driver included in the plurality of drivers that is to be dispatched to the facility located in the disaster area, based on the primary information, the secondary information, and the tertiary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Tadahiro KASHIWAI, Shintaro MATSUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220215701
    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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatoshi HAYASHI, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Shintaro Matsutani
  • Patent number: 11352011
    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: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11353332
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles; and a server configured to communicate with the one or more vehicles, wherein each of the one or more vehicles is configured to generate a first video of a traveling route by capturing an outside scene while traveling, and the server is configured to store a plurality of the first videos generated by the one or more vehicles, generate a second video of a specific route using two or more of the first videos, the specific route being different from the traveling route of each of the plurality of the first videos, and send the second video to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20220157172
    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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20220130152
    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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
  • Patent number: 11315430
    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: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11282390
    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: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20220067355
    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: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11250275
    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: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20210383287
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit identifies, based on application information received by the communication unit for applying for use of a vehicle, a user that has applied for the use of the vehicle. The control unit determines a vehicle to be recommended to the user among a plurality of vehicles based on preference information and smell information, the preference information indicating a degree of preference of the user for a smell of a plurality of classifications, and the smell information indicating a smell classification of each of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210372807
    Abstract: A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit sends, to a terminal device, information on a comfort level in a vehicle cabin of a shared vehicle that is determined based on a detection result of detecting an effect of a passenger on a vehicle body or equipment of the shared vehicle to present the information to another passenger before boarding the shared vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210375075
    Abstract: A server device includes: a communication module; and one or more processors configured to perform communication with an outside of the server device via the communication module, receive, from a vehicle, information relating to a maintenance state of the vehicle, and transmit at least one of information on usage permission of the vehicle or information on a request for maintenance of the vehicle, to one or more terminal devices, in accordance with the maintenance state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210375081
    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: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu KANO, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Publication number: 20210375073
    Abstract: The server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit sends a captured image of surroundings of a vehicle or an inside of a vehicle cabin when a traveling mode of the vehicle is different from a past traveling mode to a terminal device such that the terminal device outputs the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210370872
    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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu KANO, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Reita KAMEI, Namika HARA
  • Publication number: 20210370871
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises a controller configured to detect, in relation to an area associated with a predetermined facility, entry or exit of a predetermined vehicle, transmit, to a facility device corresponding to the facility, in a case where the vehicle enters the area, an electronic key for enabling movement of the vehicle, and invalidate the electronic key transmitted to the facility device in a case where the vehicle exits the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu KANO, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
  • Publication number: 20210370875
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which controls locking and unlocking of a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: in a case where there is an unlocking request from a first mobile terminal located outside the vehicle, receiving a first electronic key from the first mobile terminal to perform first authentication and unlocking the vehicle on condition that the first authentication is successful; and in a case where the first mobile terminal is located inside the vehicle, and there is an unlocking request from a second mobile terminal located outside the vehicle, receiving a second electronic key from the second mobile terminal to perform second authentication, receiving the first electronic key from the first mobile terminal located inside the vehicle to perform third authentication, and unlocking the vehicle on condition that both the second authentication and the third authentication are successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu KANO, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Reita KAMEI, Namika HARA