Patents by Inventor Mikihiro Amano
Mikihiro Amano 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: 11338706Abstract: A vehicle cabin control device includes: a plurality of seating surface changing devices; a determination unit; and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such an orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Mikihiro Amano, Kihiro Kato, Hiroshi Mizobata, Kazuhiro Matsui
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Patent number: 10896610Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
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Publication number: 20200223328Abstract: A vehicle cabin control device includes a plurality of seating surface changing devices a determination unit and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such a orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Mikihiro Amano, Kihiro Kato, Hiroshi Mizobata, Kazuhiro Matsui
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Publication number: 20190235251Abstract: A vehicle dispatch service coordinated search assistance system, includes a glasses-type wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition section; a gaze information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch responder-side position information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch requester-side position information acquisition section; and a control unit that, in coordination with a vehicle dispatch service system that matches the vehicle dispatch requester with the dispatch response vehicle, displays position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester on a lens section of the wearable terminal based on the orientation information relating to the wearable terminal, the gaze information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder, the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder and to the dispatch response vehicle, and the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester, such that the display is overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the vehicle dType: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
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Publication number: 20190228660Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
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Publication number: 20190220238Abstract: A vehicle display nexus control apparatus includes: a first display part provided at a vehicle main body; a wearable terminal that is worn at a head region of an occupant, and that is provided with a second display part disposed in front of an eye of the occupant in a worn state; a display information acquisition unit that acquires information to be displayed at at least one of the first display part or the second display part; and a display location selection unit that determines whether to display the information acquired by the display information acquisition unit at both the first display part and the second display part, at only the first display part, or at only the second display part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
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Patent number: 6857675Abstract: A damper unit includes a gear having a core member projecting at a shaft core portion thereof and rotatably housed in a case, a string wound around the core member, a rotary damper engaging the gear for damping a rotational force of the gear, and a spring. One end of the spring is fixed to the case and the other end thereof is fixed to the core member so that an elastic force is accumulated when the string is pulled out.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Nifco Inc.Inventors: Katsuhito Kurachi, Shunsuke Okabayashi, Ken Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Mikihiro Amano
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Publication number: 20040189035Abstract: A damper unit includes a gear having a core member projecting at a shaft core portion thereof and rotatably housed in a case, a string wound around the core member, a rotary damper engaging the gear for damping a rotational force of the gear, and a spring. One end of the spring is fixed to the case and the other end thereof is fixed to the core member so that an elastic force is accumulated when the string is pulled out.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Katsuhito Kurachi, Shunsuke Okabayashi, Ken Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Mikihiro Amano