Patents by Inventor Naoki KUROKAWA
Naoki KUROKAWA 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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Publication number: 20240215553Abstract: An artificial fish reef using a vehicle body made of steel plate of a discarded vehicle as an artificial-fish-reef outer shell portion, the artificial fish reef includes the artificial-fish-reef outer shell portion and a carbide which is generated by using interior and exterior materials which are provided to be attendant on the vehicle body as a raw material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Takehiko OHGI, Hirokazu MIYAJIMA, Eiji TANAKA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Norio NISHINO
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Patent number: 11574541Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
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Patent number: 11417113Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, a storage unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire vehicle information from a vehicle-mounted information processing device. The controller is configured to recognize the position of a target in a case where vehicle information including the target in the vicinity of a vehicle is acquired. The controller is configured to accumulate the target in a habitat database such that the target is correlated with the position. The controller is configured to generate habitat information of the target based on a habitat database. The providing unit is configured to provide the habitat information to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
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Patent number: 11222529Abstract: A traveling assisting method for an ambulance vehicle includes the first to third steps. The first step is the step of causing a server to acquire an expected arrival time at which an ambulance vehicle arrives at a traffic intersection that is located on an expected traveling route of the ambulance vehicle. The second step is the step of causing the server to acquire an expected arrival time at which a vehicle arrives at the traffic intersection, when the vehicle is located in surroundings of the expected traveling route. The third step is the step of causing the server to transmit a restraint instruction to the vehicle to travel toward the traffic intersection and to restrain entry of a vehicle other than the ambulance vehicle into the traffic intersection.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Kurokawa, Takenori Shimizu, Junya Watanabe, Jun Goto, Koji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 11189175Abstract: A vehicle dispatch system includes: a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform automated driving and each including a wireless LAN module; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. The wireless LAN module is configured to connect to a user's portable terminal and an access point of a wireless LAN communication network, and is configured to relay wireless communication between the portable terminal and the wireless LAN communication network. The server is configured to output, to a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, an instruction for dispatching the vehicle by automated driving, in accordance with a vehicle dispatch request from the portable terminal. The vehicle, in response to the instruction, is configured to relay wireless communication between the portable terminal and the wireless LAN communication network by using the wireless LAN module.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Kawasaki, Takenori Shimizu, Naoki Kurokawa, Junya Watanabe, Jun Goto
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Publication number: 20210287537Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
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Patent number: 11055994Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
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Patent number: 10755563Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a plurality of in-vehicle devices configured to communicate with a roadside device. The plurality of in-vehicle devices are mounted on a plurality of vehicles travelling in a row, respectively. Based on information on a response to travelling in a row, acquired from the roadside device, one of the plurality of in-vehicle devices determines whether a traffic signal controller that controls a traffic signal device is configured to perform control to give priority to the plurality of vehicles travelling in a row. Based on a result of the determination, the driving assistance system selects one in-vehicle device, from among the plurality of in-vehicle devices, to transmit, to the roadside device, a request signal requesting to give priority to the plurality of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Takeda, Naoki Kurokawa
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Publication number: 20200242925Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
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Publication number: 20200218911Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, a storage unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire vehicle information from a vehicle-mounted information processing device. The controller is configured to recognize the position of a target in a case where vehicle information including the target in the vicinity of a vehicle is acquired. The controller is configured to accumulate the target in a habitat database such that the target is correlated with the position. The controller is configured to generate habitat information of the target based on a habitat database. The providing unit is configured to provide the habitat information to a terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
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Publication number: 20200202229Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a control unit and a giving unit. The acquisition unit can acquire vehicle information from an in-vehicle information processing device. The acquisition unit can acquire condition information from a terminal device. When acquiring the vehicle information, the control unit recognizes a weather when a vehicle detects clothes in the vehicle information. The control unit accumulates the clothes in a clothes database, in association with the weather and a position. When acquiring the condition information, the control unit recognizes a predicted weather at a designated time and a designated position. The control unit selects at least one kind of clothes, based on the clothes in the clothes database that are associated with the predicted weather and the position. The giving unit gives the at least one kind of clothes, to the terminal device that gives the condition information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Ilda
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Publication number: 20200118428Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a plurality of in-vehicle devices configured to communicate with a roadside device. The plurality of in-vehicle devices are mounted on a plurality of vehicles travelling in a row, respectively. Based on information on a response to travelling in a row, acquired from the roadside device, one of the plurality of in-vehicle devices determines whether a traffic signal controller that controls a traffic signal device is configured to perform control to give priority to the plurality of vehicles travelling in a row. Based on a result of the determination, the driving assistance system selects one in-vehicle device, from among the plurality of in-vehicle devices, to transmit, to the roadside device, a request signal requesting to give priority to the plurality of vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro TAKEDA, Naoki KUROKAWA
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Patent number: 10621872Abstract: If a vehicle with a user on board becomes undrivable due to insufficient power, a server uses first information, second information, and third information to set a vehicle-switching location between a current location of the vehicle and a destination, and dispatches a vehicle to the vehicle-switching location. When the vehicle joins the vehicle at the vehicle-switching location, the vehicle travels toward the destination with the user on board. After the user gets off the vehicle, the vehicle travels by self-driving toward a charging station. The first information is positional information of the charging station. The second information is information on a self-driving route of the vehicle from the vehicle-switching location to the charging station. The third information is information indicating reliability about whether or not the vehicle can arrive at the charging station by self-driving.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori Shimizu, Naoki Kurokawa, Junya Watanabe, Jun Goto, Koji Kawasaki
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Vehicle dispatch method, vehicle dispatch system, and parking fee charging system including the same
Patent number: 10546500Abstract: A vehicle dispatch method is a method for dispatching vehicles by a server, each of the vehicles being configured to perform automated driving. The vehicle dispatch method includes first to fifth steps. The first step is a step of dispatching, the vehicle to a current location of a user. The second step is a step of dispatching, the vehicle with no driver on board to a destination of the user using positional information of the destination. The third step is a step of, when the vehicle arrives at the destination, parking the vehicle at a parking space. The fourth step is a step of, when it is detected that the vehicle with the user on board approaches the parking space, moving the vehicle from the parking space. The fifth step is a step of parking the vehicle at the parking space where the vehicle has been parked.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKIInventors: Jun Goto, Naoki Kurokawa, Takenori Shimizu, Junya Watanabe, Koji Kawasaki -
Patent number: 10332402Abstract: A school-travel assistance system includes automobiles. The automobiles include communication modules configured to communicate with each other, and are configured to perform auto-driving. At least one of the automobiles includes a camera configured to detect the group of children. The automobiles perform assistance control (first and second assistance controls) in which they cooperatively assist movement of the group of children, while communicating with each other through the communication modules. The assistance control is control of assisting the movement of the group of children by the automobile traveling in front of the group of children and the automobile traveling behind the group of children.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Goto, Takenori Shimizu, Naoki Kurokawa, Junya Watanabe, Koji Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20190130763Abstract: A vehicle dispatch system includes: a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform automated driving and each including a wireless LAN module; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. The wireless LAN module is configured to connect to a user's portable terminal and an access point of a wireless LAN communication network, and is configured to relay wireless communication between the portable terminal and the wireless LAN communication network. The server is configured to output, to a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, an instruction for dispatching the vehicle by automated driving, in accordance with a vehicle dispatch request from the portable terminal. The vehicle, in response to the instruction, is configured to relay wireless communication between the portable terminal and the wireless LAN communication network by using the wireless LAN module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji KAWASAKI, Takenori SHIMIZU, Naoki KUROKAWA, Junya WATANABE, Jun GOTO
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Publication number: 20190122542Abstract: A traveling assisting method for an ambulance vehicle includes the first to third steps. The first step is the step of causing a server to acquire an expected arrival time at which an ambulance vehicle arrives at a traffic intersection that is located on an expected traveling route of the ambulance vehicle. The second step is the step of causing the server to acquire an expected arrival time at which a vehicle arrives at the traffic intersection, when the vehicle is located in surroundings of the expected traveling route. The third step is the step of causing the server to transmit a restraint instruction to the vehicle to travel toward the traffic intersection and to restrain entry of a vehicle other than the ambulance vehicle into the traffic intersection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki KUROKAWA, Takenori SHIMIZU, Junya WATANABE, Jun GOTO, Koji KAWASAKI
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VEHICLE DISPATCH METHOD, VEHICLE DISPATCH SYSTEM, AND PARKING FEE CHARGING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME
Publication number: 20190122560Abstract: A vehicle dispatch method is a method for dispatching vehicles by a server, each of the vehicles being configured to perform automated driving. The vehicle dispatch method includes first to fifth steps. The first step is a step of dispatching, the vehicle to a current location of a user. The second step is a step of dispatching, the vehicle with no driver on board to a destination of the user using positional information of the destination. The third step is a step of, when the vehicle arrives at the destination, parking the vehicle at a parking space. The fourth step is a step of, when it is detected that the vehicle with the user on board approaches the parking space, moving the vehicle from the parking space. The fifth step is a step of parking the vehicle at the parking space where the vehicle has been parked.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun GOTO, Naoki KUROKAWA, Takenori SHIMIZU, Junya WATANABE, Koji KAWASAKI -
Publication number: 20190122561Abstract: If a vehicle with a user on board becomes undrivable due to insufficient power, a server uses first information, second information, and third information to set a vehicle-switching location between a current location of the vehicle and a destination, and dispatches a vehicle to the vehicle-switching location. When the vehicle joins the vehicle at the vehicle-switching location, the vehicle travels toward the destination with the user on board. After the user gets off the vehicle, the vehicle travels by self-driving toward a charging station. The first information is positional information of the charging station. The second information is information on a self-driving route of the vehicle from the vehicle-switching location to the charging station. The third information is information indicating reliability about whether or not the vehicle can arrive at the charging station by self-driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori SHIMIZU, Naoki KUROKAWA, Junya WATANABE, Jun GOTO, Koji KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20190114922Abstract: A school-travel assistance system includes automobiles. The automobiles include communication modules configured to communicate with each other, and are configured to perform auto-driving. At least one of the automobiles includes a camera configured to detect the group of children. The automobiles perform assistance control (first and second assistance controls) in which they cooperatively assist movement of the group of children, while communicating with each other through the communication modules. The assistance control is control of assisting the movement of the group of children by the automobile traveling in front of the group of children and the automobile traveling behind the group of children.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun GOTO, Takenori SHIMIZU, Naoki KUROKAWA, Junya WATANABE, Koji KAWASAKI