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: 11188071
    Abstract: A driving control system in which a server apparatus controls an operation of a vehicle via a telecommunication network. The server apparatus includes a controller configured to determine whether a condition for raising a degree of accuracy in detecting a wild animal in an area around the vehicle is satisfied, and to raise the degree of accuracy in detecting the wild animal by controlling a detection device included in the vehicle at a timing when the condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Sinae Kim, Takayuki Yano, Naoki Yamamuro, Takashi Hayashi, Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 11181312
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a thawing compartment configured to thaw a commodity housed therein, an acquisition device configured to obtain information including a thawing time limit set based on a request from a user, and a controller configured to control the thawing operation of the thawing compartment. The controller controls the thawing compartment so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity housed therein by the thawing time limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11183057
    Abstract: A server is used to provide a smoking vehicle to a user who wants to smoke. The server includes a communication device. The communication device is configured to receive first time information indicating a boarding time and first location information indicating a boarding location from an information terminal of the user. The communication device is configured to receive location information of the vehicle. The communication device is configured to transmit the first time information and the first location information to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11161427
    Abstract: In a management server, a first acquirer acquires contract information regarding electricity supply between an electricity supplier and a manager of the installation place of an electric outlet supplied with electricity from the electricity supplier. A second acquirer acquires charge result information of a user's vehicle charged up with electricity supplied through the electric outlet. A deriver derives an amount of payment to the manager based on the contract information acquired at the first acquirer and the charge result information acquired at the second acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nariaki Amano, Naoki Yamamuro, Masato Endo, Yukiya Yamane
  • Patent number: 11162808
    Abstract: An information providing system includes an information providing device and a vehicle. The information providing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire second information indicating a candidate point matching first information and evaluation of the candidate point and a second information transmitting unit configured to transmit the second information to the vehicle. The first information indicates a condition for searching for a point at which the vehicle stops when the vehicle is stopped and used for resting. The vehicle includes a second information receiving unit configured to receive the second information from the information providing device and an output unit configured to output the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsugu Makita, Daigo Fujii, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 11151815
    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: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Patent number: 11150863
    Abstract: A vehicle sound output device including: an acquiring section configured to acquire wakefulness level information that indicates a degree of a wakefulness state of a driver of a vehicle; and a control section configured to, in a case in which the degree of the wakefulness state indicates a decreased level of wakefulness, control a sound output section to output a sound based on at least one of a predetermined frequency, a predetermined tone, or a predetermined content that stimulates a sympathetic nerve of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Akihiro Muguruma, Yukiya Sugiyama, Shota Higashihara, Riho Matsuo, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20210311494
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Hironobu KITAOKA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Kozo KOSHO, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Makoto IKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20210304328
    Abstract: A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to display, on a display, information obtained by converting a balance of a registered prepaid-type settlement method into an amount of an energy source used in life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomokazu MAYA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Yuki NAKATANI, Kosuke MIYAKE, Soushi MIZUNO, Yasushi FURUHATA, Masataka NARITA, Yasuhiro TAKEHARA
  • Patent number: 11079246
    Abstract: A management system according to the present disclosure is a management system that manages a travel plan of a vehicle that is capable of traveling on a road and a railway track, and includes controller that creates the travel plan of the vehicle. In a case where there is a route candidate track that is a railway track that is possibly used as a travel route of the vehicle, the controller acquires a railway operation schedule for the route candidate track, and determines whether the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, based on the operation schedule. In the case where the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, the controller creates a travel plan according to which the vehicle travels along the travel route including the route candidate track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20210233195
    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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasumasa KOBAYASHI, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Yuki ITO, Hiroyasu SHIOKAWA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Patent number: 11072348
    Abstract: A driving assist device includes a control unit configured to acquire event position information that is position information about a vehicle when it is detected that a driver of the vehicle is in a looking aside state in the vehicle, as an event, and configured to present attention information calling for attention, to a driver who is driving toward a position indicated by the event position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro Yanagi, Maki Tamura, Mutsumi Matsuura, Toshihiko Inoue, Naoki Yamamuro, Takashi Hayashi, Takahiro Shiga
  • Publication number: 20210224761
    Abstract: A server includes a communication interface and a controller that transmits and receives information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. The controller receives information on a cruising range from each mobile store among a plurality of mobile stores selling different types of products and transmits an instruction to the mobile stores to circulate as a group along a circulation route travelable by a first mobile store having the shortest cruising range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Ayana TAKESHITA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yugo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20210224711
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller that transmits and receives information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. The controller receives, from a shop terminal apparatus of a shop, information on a food product to be collected and transmits, to a mobile shop that collects the food product, a reconfiguration procedure for reconfiguring an ingredient included in the food product to yield a reconfigured food product having an expiration date later than an expiration date of the food product. The controller prompts the mobile shop to sell the reconfigured food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Ayana TAKESHITA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yugo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20210224926
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller that transmits and receives information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. The controller transmits an instruction, to a mobile shop stocking wearable items, for moving to a point designated by a first terminal apparatus of a wearer. The controller receives a captured image of the wearer from the mobile shop and transmits the captured image to a second terminal apparatus of an evaluator. The controller receives evaluation information from the second terminal apparatus and transmits the evaluation information to the first terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Ayana TAKESHITA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yugo SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11067999
    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: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20210201287
    Abstract: A wallet server includes: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: display, on a display, a payment icon receiving a request for payment using any of a plurality of different payment methods, and additional information determined based on a result of comparison between a balance of each payment method and a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomokazu MAYA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Yuki NAKATANI, Kosuke MIYAKE, Soushi MIZUNO, Yasushi FURUHATA, Masataka NARITA, Yasuhiro TAKEHARA
  • Publication number: 20210201252
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to send and receive information via the communication interface. The controller, while a mobile shop which is configured to be loaded with items according to vacant spaces is loaded with one or more first items and performs patrol selling, sends a discount instruction, to the mobile shop, to discount the one or more first items upon receipt of a request, from a terminal apparatus, for patrol selling of a second item not loaded in the mobile shop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Ayana TAKESHITA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yugo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20210170935
    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: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zekai QIU, Hironobu KITAOKA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Kozo KOSHO, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Makoto IKEGAMI
  • Patent number: 11010853
    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: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasumasa Kobayashi, Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane