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).
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Patent number: 11189162Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicable with the vehicle. The vehicle acquires a moving image obtained by imaging an oncoming lane during traveling. At least one of a congestion section and a congestion degree of the oncoming lane is determined based on the moving image. The server stores at least one of the congestion section and the congestion degree of the oncoming lane and provides information to a client by using the stored information.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Patent number: 11170207Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20210333116Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a controller. The controller specifies a user who applied for ride-sharing based on application information for applying for the ride-sharing received by the communication unit. The controller decides a driver to be recommended to the user from a plurality of drivers, based on preference information showing a preference degree of the user for a driving habit and driving information showing a driving habit of each of the drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
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Publication number: 20210327179Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu KANO, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Reita KAMEI, Namika HARA
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Publication number: 20210319638Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
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Publication number: 20210304531Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprises a storage configured to store two or more electronic keys corresponding to two or more locking-unlocking apparatuses, respectively; and a controller configured to perform selection of an electronic key to be used, from among the two or more electronic keys, and transmission of the selected electronic key to a corresponding locking-unlocking apparatus of the two or more locking-unlocking apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu Kano, Masatoshi Hayashi, Reita Kamei, Namika Hara
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Publication number: 20210302179Abstract: A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit configured to send and receive information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit is configured to detect an object of interest of a spectator based on a state of the spectator detected during execution of an event and is configured to send a notification to prompt to ride in a vehicle to a plurality of terminal devices respectively used by a plurality of spectators. The vehicle is a vehicle assigned to the plurality of spectators sharing the object of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Andou, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Tomokazu Maya, Masatoshi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11131263Abstract: In an intake air flow rate calculation process, a pulsation correction coefficient calculation process is executed to calculate a pulsation correction coefficient, which is used to compensate for an output error of the air flow meter resulting from an intake air pulsation, based on an engine rotation speed, a throttle opening degree, and an atmospheric pressure, and the intake air flow rate is calculated by correcting the intake air flow rate with the pulsation correction coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11040991Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mixture of cyclophosphazenes suitably substituted with phenoxy having a polymerizable functional group, such as allyl, on the phenyl ring and a production method for the mixture. The invention relates to a mixture of cyclophosphazene compounds that each contain a plurality of constituent units linked to each other, each constituent unit being represented by formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different and represent C1-4 alkyl or the like, the mixture containing cyclophosphazene compounds in which 3, 4, and 5 constituent units represented by formula (I) are linked, wherein the cyclophosphazene compound containing 3 linked constituent units is cyclophosphazene compound (I-A) with a specific structure, compound (I-A) includes cyclophosphazene compounds (I-A2) and (I-A3) having a specific structure, and compounds (I-A2) and (I-A3) are present in an amount of 80 wt % or more in total in cyclophosphazene compound (I-A).Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: OTSUKA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Hayashi, Daisuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210148296Abstract: In an intake air flow rate calculation process, a pulsation correction coefficient calculation process is executed to calculate a pulsation correction coefficient, which is used to compensate for an output error of the air flow meter resulting from an intake air pulsation, based on an engine rotation speed, a throttle opening degree, and an atmospheric pressure, and the intake air flow rate is calculated by correcting the intake air flow rate with the pulsation correction coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi HAYASHI
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Patent number: 10997841Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a communicator; and a processor configured to receive help request information that is information for requesting help and positional information of a user terminal of a user in a vehicle from the user terminal via the communicator, based on the positional information of the user terminal, identify a first advertisement display apparatus that is located within a predetermined distance range from the user terminal and satisfies a predetermined condition, and transmit an instruction to display a help request message corresponding to the help request information, to the first advertisement display apparatus via the communicator is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke Yoshida, Shugen Yamamura, Hiroto Inoue, Masatoshi Hayashi, Yoshino Yamamori
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Publication number: 20200198643Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200189527Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
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Publication number: 20200193169Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
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Publication number: 20200193810Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicable with the vehicle. The vehicle acquires a moving image obtained by imaging an oncoming lane during traveling. At least one of a congestion section and a congestion degree of the oncoming lane is determined based on the moving image. The server stores at least one of the congestion section and the congestion degree of the oncoming lane and provides information to a client by using the stored information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200193147Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200191598Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200160410Abstract: An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. A vehicle generates an image by capturing a plurality of users who share a host vehicle. The vehicle or the server detects an interaction among the users based on the image and, based on a detection result, estimates each user's satisfaction level. The server accumulates data for each user wherein the data indicates an association between an attribute of another user and a user's satisfaction level, estimates a relationship between another user's attribute and a user's satisfaction level based on the accumulated data, preferentially selects, as a candidate, another user who has an attribute that increases the user's satisfaction level from among other users based on the estimated relationship when a service use request is received from a user's terminal device, and sends proposal information to the terminal device wherein the proposal information proposes a ride share with the candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200160715Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi KUSAMA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hisanori MITSUMOTO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Makoto AKAHANE, Yuriko YAMAGUCHI, Daisuke KATO
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Publication number: 20200126124Abstract: An information processing system including: a road-side apparatus installed at an entrance or an exit of a toll road or a facility, the road-side apparatus being configured to perform predetermined wireless communication with an in-vehicle apparatus in a vehicle passing through the entrance or the exit; and a server is provided. The server includes a control unit configured to: if passage of the vehicle through the entrance or the exit is detected by the road-side apparatus, acquire destination information relating to a destination of the vehicle and state information relating to a state of the vehicle from the in-vehicle apparatus; select advertisement information to be distributed to the vehicle, based on the destination information; determine whether or not a predetermined condition for ensuring safety of running of the vehicle is satisfied, based on the state information; and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, distribute the advertisement information to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto INOUE, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Shugen YAMAMURA, Kosuke YOSHIDA, Yoshino YAMAMORI