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).

  • Patent number: 11507917
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring information regarding a request of a user making a product while riding on a mobile object; acquiring information regarding an article used in making the product; acquiring information regarding a location of the article; and generating an operation command of the mobile object such that the mobile object carrying the user travels via the location of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11493349
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure transmits, upon receiving first information requesting provision of contact information indicating a contact address of a second user, transmitted from a first user terminal which is a terminal used by the first user, second information which is information requesting permission to provide the contact information to the first user and which includes information capable of identifying the first user to a second user terminal which is a terminal used by the second user. The second user is a user who is sharing or has a history of sharing a predetermined space with the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Kotake, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuki Ito, Akira Nishida, Zekai Qiu, Kenichi Hagiya, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11485386
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute: outputting, when detecting or estimating travel inability of an own vehicle, information regarding a request for receiving an article provided from another vehicle to avoid the travel inability. The control unit performs, when determining that a request vehicle outputs the information regarding the request, a prescribed process for providing an article corresponding to the request to the request vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nozomi Kaneko, Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11488212
    Abstract: A server apparatus and the like that improve operation efficiency of a marketplace for trading products are provided. The server apparatus includes a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller calculates a time required until sale of a product at a display position based on a temporal change in captured images of the display position where the product is displayed until the product is sold, determines an exhibition fee for the display position based on the time required, informs a terminal apparatus of an exhibitor of the exhibition fee, and urges the exhibitor to exhibit the product for sale at the display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kobayashi, Ayana Takeshita, Naoki Yamamuro, Takuya Maekawa, Yugo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11486723
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a controller which executes: obtaining predetermined service information including an advertisement; obtaining predetermined user information on biological information of a user in a vehicle in which the user rides; estimating a health condition of the user based on the user information; extracting distribution information which is information, among the service information, is judged to match the user based on the user's health condition, and which is information about a medical facility according to the health condition or/and information about a predetermined store which sells goods according to the health condition; and selecting, based on position information of the vehicle, information to be actually distributed to the user from among the distribution information thus extracted, and providing the information thus selected to the user, by transmitting the selected distribution information to an on-board device of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11468692
    Abstract: A control device includes a controller. The controller detects, as an event, that a target present outside a vehicle has been overlooked by a driver of the vehicle during. The controller controls the outputting of a target image, which is an image including the target overlooked in the detected event, toward the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro Yanagi, Maki Tamura, Mutsumi Matsuura, Toshihiko Inoue, Naoki Yamamuro, Takashi Hayashi, Takahiro Shiga
  • Patent number: 11465649
    Abstract: A vehicle control system comprising a vehicle control device, and a remote operation terminal. The vehicle control device controls a host vehicle capable of traveling in each of an autonomous self-driving mode, a remote self-driving mode, and a manual driving mode. The remote operation terminal remotely operate the host vehicle. The vehicle control device acquires a nearby-vehicle driving mode representing a driving mode of a nearby vehicle that is a vehicle near the host vehicle. In a case in which the nearby-vehicle driving mode of the nearby vehicle is a remote self-driving mode and a driving mode of the host vehicle is the autonomous self-driving mode, the vehicle control device controls travel of the host vehicle in the autonomous self-driving mode so that a distance between the nearby vehicle and the host vehicle becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Patent number: 11460858
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a controlling portion configured to execute: acquisition of information about a through-point corresponding to a selection object selected by a user terminal from among selection objects installable in a movable body in a base state; acquisition of information about a destination output from the user terminal as a point where a user observes the movable body in a state where the selection object selected by the user terminal is installed; and generation of a navigation command so as to move the movable body to the destination after the selection object selected by the user terminal is installed in the movable body by causing the movable body to drop in at the through-point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11441922
    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: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Iwaasa, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamamuro, Masato Endo, Daishi Terato, Masakazu Nomura, Shinichiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11414048
    Abstract: A key information sharing system includes a first user terminal carried by a first user of a vehicle, a second user terminal carried by a second user of the vehicle, and a server device configured to distribute key information to the first user terminal. The key information is used for a key system that determines whether to lock and unlock the vehicle, make the vehicle travel, and use a content providing device that provides digital contents in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle. The server device is configured to distribute the key information to which restricted function information is added, to the first user terminal. The restricted function information is 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 server device is configured to distribute the to the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Patent number: 11396310
    Abstract: A vehicle control system that sets a preliminary destination or a preliminary destination area toward which a vehicle heads in an autonomously driven state; that causes the vehicle to travel in the autonomously driven state to the preliminary destination or the preliminary destination area set by the preliminary destination/area setting section; that acquires position information for the vehicle; and that switches a driving state of the vehicle from the autonomously driven state to a manually driven state or a remotely operated driven state when the vehicle has been detected to have arrived at the preliminary destination or in the preliminary destination area based on the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yuta Morikawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Yuki Tatsumoto
  • Patent number: 11392138
    Abstract: A vehicle that is able to travel autonomously includes a control unit configured to perform: stopping a first service and executing a second service of emergency support when the emergency has occurred during execution of the first service; and executing movement to a predetermined position associated with the second service. An information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting occurrence of an emergency; and instructing a vehicle, which is able to travel autonomously and which is located in a predetermined range including an area in which the emergency has occurred, to stop a first service which is being executed and to execute a second service of emergency support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Shitara, Hiromichi Dogishi, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11386438
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to: acquire a level of crowdedness of an intended store, the intended store being a store as a destination of a vehicle in which a user is riding; if the level of crowdedness of the intended store is greater than a given threshold, extract a store with a lower level of crowdedness than the intended store as a given recommended store from among other stores belonging to a same business group as the intended store; generate a suggestion advertisement, the suggestion advertisement being an advertisement for suggesting changing the destination of the vehicle from the intended store to the given recommended store; and present the suggestion advertisement to the user riding in the vehicle via a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being a terminal that moves with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11377068
    Abstract: A key information sharing system includes a first user terminal carried by a first user of a vehicle, a second user terminal carried by a second user of the vehicle, and a server device configured to distribute key information to the first user terminal. The key information is used for a key system that determines whether to lock and unlock the vehicle, make the vehicle travel, and use a content providing device that provides digital contents in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle. The server device is configured to distribute the key information to which restricted function information is added, to the first user terminal. The restricted function information is 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 server device is configured to distribute the to the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Patent number: 11359924
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus determines whether or not a predetermined transfer condition for urging a target user sharing a ride in a ride-sharing vehicle with another user with a different destination to transfer between ride-sharing vehicles during movement is established, on the basis of a predicted travel route of each of a transfer source vehicle and a transfer destination vehicle. Then, in the case where the predetermined transfer condition is determined to be established, the information processing apparatus transmits transfer information for urging the target user to transfer from the transfer source vehicle to the transfer destination vehicle during movement, to a terminal associated with the transfer source vehicle and a terminal associated with the transfer destination vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Kotake, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuki Ito, Akira Nishida, Zekai Qiu, Kenichi Hagiya, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20220179412
    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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki TATSUMOTO, Tsukasa NAKANISHI, Yuta MORIKAWA, Yuki ITO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Patent number: 11321794
    Abstract: A server device includes a processor configured to i) acquire vehicle information when a delivery request is made; ii) acquire predetermined authentication information for unlocking and locking a door of a vehicle, based on the acquired vehicle information; iii) transmit the acquired predetermined authentication information to a delivery terminal; and iv) to acquire predetermined proof information for proving that a user of the vehicle is a rightful recipient of a delivery article, by communicating with a user terminal. The processor is configured to transmit the acquired predetermined authentication information to the delivery terminal, on a condition that the predetermined proof information is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasumasa Kobayashi, Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Publication number: 20220128374
    Abstract: A technology that makes it possible that a plurality of users use a vehicle that does not have a specified regular driver. An information processing apparatus determines whether or not after a first user moves to a destination place by driving a first vehicle, a second user is able to move by driving the first vehicle from the destination place of the first user as a departure place. If an affirmative determination is made in the determining, the information processing apparatus matches the first user and the second user with the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke KOTAKE, Ryosuke TANIMURA, Yuki ITO, Akira NISHIDA, Zekai QIU, Kenichi HAGIYA, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20220129243
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a remote operation signal reception section configured to be input with a remote operation signal based on an operation by an operator at a command center external to a vehicle; a control section configured to control the vehicle in a remote operation mode, based on the remote operation signal output from the command center, in a state in which remote operation of the vehicle from the command center side has been enabled; and a speech communication device configured to enable conversation between an occupant of the vehicle and an operator at the command center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki ITO, Tsukasa NAKANISHI, Yuta MORIKAWA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11315148
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus extracts at least one store from a plurality of stores in accordance with an order in which degrees of safety for a target vehicle are ordered as starting from higher degrees of safety, by using information which indicates the degree of safety relevant to situations to be provided if a user visits the store and the user leaves the store by using the vehicle with respect to each of the plurality of stores belonging to a predetermined category; and provides, to the user who gets on the target vehicle, information which prompts the user to visit the at least one store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Misaki, Orie Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Ueda, Yoshitaka Atsumi, Naoto Sasagawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Chiho Ogawa