Patents by Inventor Naoki YAMAMURO

Naoki YAMAMURO 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: 20240056314
    Abstract: A data management system includes a plurality of data management apparatuses, a certification authority group, and a time stamp authority group. In making an application for a proof of existence of invention information, the data management apparatus generates an invention hash, and transmits the invention hash to selected time stamp authorities of the time stamp authority group. Each of the time stamp authorities having received the invention hash generates a time stamp token. The data management apparatus acquires the time stamp token from each of the plurality of time stamp authorities to which the invention hash has been transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Junya WATANABE, Shigeki MATSUMOTO, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Ryota SUZUKI, Yuki YAMASHITA, Hitoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11884280
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a speech acquiring section that acquires speech data related to a speech of a speaker; a state acquiring section that acquires information indicating whether or not a driver attempting to start driving a vehicle is in an intoxicated state based on the speech data; and a control section configured to limit a start operation of the vehicle in a case in which the information indicates that the driver is in the intoxicated state, the start operation being an operation performed by the driver with respect to the vehicle to start driving the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Akihiro Muguruma, Yukiya Sugiyama, Shota Higashihara, Riho Matsuo, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11835963
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a cooling box in which a delivery item delivered by a deliverer can be accommodated; a communication device configured to communicate with at least one of a server and a deliverer terminal that is used by the deliverer for delivery; and a communication device configured to acquire a target value of a temperature inside the cooling box from outside. The vehicle acquires the target value of the temperature inside the cooling box from at least one of the server and the deliverer terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11796995
    Abstract: A vehicle including: a communication section configured to receive operation information to operate a travel device from an external operation device; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: acquire peripheral information peripheral to a vehicle body from a peripheral information detection section, generate a travel plan based on the peripheral information, and control the travel device so as to perform autonomous driving in which travel is based on the generated travel plan, and perform remote driving in which travel is based on the operation information received by the communication section; and the vehicle further comprising a presentation device configured to present, at a vehicle exterior, identifying information received by the communication section, the identifying information relating to a user making use of transportation by the autonomous driving or the remote driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Patent number: 11790307
    Abstract: An information processing device executes: identifying a first region where a predetermined module is insufficient in number, the predetermined module being a module that is attachable to and detachable from a movable object; identifying a second region where the predetermined module is superfluous in number; instructing a movable object equipped with the predetermined module in the second region to provide the superfluous predetermined module to a predetermined movable object; instructing the predetermined movable object to cause the predetermined module to be attached in the second region and transport the predetermined module to the first region; and instructing a movable object not equipped with the predetermined module in the first region to receive the predetermined module transported to the first region by the predetermined movable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11790306
    Abstract: A server apparatus, a vehicle, a service provision system, and a non-transitory storage medium storing a program are disclosed. The server apparatus includes circuitry configured to transmit, to an information terminal of a user, information regarding a service available to the user, receive, from the information terminal, information regarding the service, selected by the user, receive, from the information terminal, package information regarding a package of the user, first location information indicating a location to receive the package from the user, first time information indicating a time to receive the package from the user, second location information indicating a location to return the package, and second time information indicating a time to return the package, and arrange a specified vehicle based on the package information, the first location information, and the first time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11783648
    Abstract: A server that shares key information to a portable terminal includes processing circuitry configured to deliver the key information to the portable terminal. The key information is associated with an object equipped with a control device, and the control device performs a predetermined control to the object when the control device receives the key information from an external terminal. The key information includes restriction information, where the restriction information sets a restriction content for the predetermined control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Patent number: 11720097
    Abstract: A vehicle control system, comprising a remote operator selection server, a vehicle control device, and a remote operation terminal. The vehicle control device is configured to transmit a manual operation information to the remote operator selection server. The remote operator selection server is configured to acquire the manual operation information transmitted from the vehicle control device, to compute a difference between the manual operation information and a remote operation information for each of the plurality of remote operators, to select a remote operator for whom the difference satisfies a predetermined criterion as a remote operator to remotely operate the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Yuki Ito, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11718218
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle main body having a passenger compartment and a rear compartment located more rearward than the passenger compartment; a rear hatch provided on the vehicle main body and configured to open and close the rear compartment; a cooling box disposed in the rear compartment; a first communication device configured to communicate with an external server; a second communication device having a communication distance shorter than that of the first communication device; a locking device configured to lock the rear hatch; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive information about an opening signal from the server through the first communication device, and to open the rear hatch when the processor receives the opening signal through the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11680817
    Abstract: A surrounding information collection system requests a vehicle to transmit surrounding information, and stores the surrounding information transmitted from the vehicle in response to the request. The surrounding information collection system requests a vehicle to transmit surrounding information, the vehicle acquiring the surrounding information having accuracy greater than a threshold calculated based on accuracy of the stored surrounding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Iwaasa, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamamuro, Masato Endo, Daishi Terato, Masakazu Nomura, Shinichiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11663865
    Abstract: A key information sharing system includes a delivery device that delivers key information as first information for a control device equipped in an object and a user terminal that receives the first information delivered from the delivery device. The delivery device adds second information that allows the first information to be transferred between the user terminal and a third-party terminal without the delivery device, to the first information to be delivered to the user terminal. The user terminal transmits the first information to the third-party terminal in response to an input operation by a user, when the user terminal receives the first information to which the second information has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Publication number: 20230155848
    Abstract: When a second operation to simultaneously update component data D12 to component data D13 and update component data D21 to component data D22 is performed, a controller of a client server creates a record RA3 including a hash value of the component data D13 in a distributed ledger which is a first proof chain and creates a record RB2 including a hash value of the component data D22 in a distributed ledger which is a second proof chain. The controller generates a terminal hash value including a record hash value of the record RA3 and a record hash value of the record RB2 and obtains a time stamp token for the terminal hash value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SCALAR, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Wataru FUKATSU
  • Publication number: 20230153036
    Abstract: As a record RA1 is stored in a first distributed ledger, a controller of a client server obtains a time stamp token T0 for a record hash value RH1 thereof and has a record RB0 including the time stamp token T0 stored in a second distributed ledger. Then, as a record RA2 is stored in the first distributed ledger, the controller obtains a time stamp token T1 for a record hash value RH2 of the record RA2. Then, the controller has a record RB2 including the time stamp token T1 and a record hash value of the record RB0 stored in the second distributed ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SCALAR, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Wataru FUKATSU
  • Patent number: 11643109
    Abstract: A vehicle control system that acquires position information of a vehicle in a driving state of a manually driven state or a remotely operated driven state; that stores a pre-traveled travel route of a vehicle in the manually driven state or the remotely operated driven state based on the acquired position information; and that creates a travel route on which a vehicle is caused to travel in an autonomously driven state using the stored travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230115180
    Abstract: When a controller of a client server updates component data D12 to component data D13, the controller creates in a distributed ledger which is a first proof chain, a record (Age [3]) including a hash value of the component data D13. Then, the controller generates a terminal hash value which is a hash value of a terminal record (Age [3]) in the first proof chain. The controller has the generated terminal hash value stored in a record in a distributed ledger which is a second proof chain, and associates the first proof chain and the second proof chain with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SCALAR, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Wataru FUKATSU
  • Patent number: 11584398
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a situation detection device that detects a situation around a periphery of a vehicle and outputs a situation detection signal based on detection results; and a processor (i) that is input with the situation detection signal when the vehicle travels in an autonomous automatic driving mode, that controls travel of the vehicle based on the situation detection signal, and (ii) that enters a prohibited state that prohibits control of the travel of the vehicle in the autonomous automatic driving mode in a prohibited area in which the travel of the vehicle in the autonomous automatic driving mode is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Patent number: 11565604
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: a rotary electric machine configured to generate a driving force for driving driving wheels; a driving battery storing power to drive the rotary electric machine; a converter connected to the driving battery; an auxiliary battery connected to the driving battery via the converter; and a cooling box connected to the auxiliary battery. When the driving battery has an SOC reduced to be smaller than a prescribed threshold value, the converter is stopped and power remaining in the auxiliary battery is used to drive the cooling box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11556976
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a controller configured to detect an item to be purchased, based on a temporal change in captured images of an item display position at a mobile shop and, upon acquiring authentication information for a purchaser from a first terminal apparatus, perform a charging process in respect of the purchaser for a price of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kobayashi, Ayana Takeshita, Naoki Yamamuro, Takuya Maekawa, Yugo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11535279
    Abstract: A vehicle position sensing system includes: a position information acquiring section that acquires position information of a vehicle; a storage section that stores first region information, which expresses automatic driving regions where automatic driving of the vehicle is possible and remote driving regions where remote operation driving of the vehicle is possible, and second region information that expresses manual driving regions where only manual driving of the vehicle is permitted; a head up display that can be viewed by a driver of the vehicle; and a control section that, on the basis of the position information of the vehicle, the first region information and the second region information, causes the head up display to display relative positional relationships among the vehicle, the automatic driving regions, the remote driving regions and the manual driving regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Patent number: 11535195
    Abstract: A server comprises circuitry configured to distribute key information to a first portable terminal. The key information includes information indicating whether locking and unlocking of a vehicle, making the vehicle travel, and using a content providing device that provides digital contents in a vehicle cabin are permitted. The key information further includes restricted function information indicating that locking and unlocking of the vehicle and use of the content providing device are permitted but traveling of the vehicle is not permitted. The key information further includes deliverable information making the key information deliverable to another terminal. The deliverable information is excluded from the key information when the key information is sent from the first portable terminal to a second portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane