Patents by Inventor Naotoshi KADOTANI
Naotoshi KADOTANI 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: 20240247942Abstract: The notification system that notifies the user of the transfer service that has boarded the vehicle that is able to travel autonomously and provides the transfer service is configured to notify the user when the travel route to the destination of the vehicle is different from the past travel route when the user has moved to the destination or the vicinity of the destination in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke MOGI, Shuta YOKOTA, Susumu OIKAWA, Takahiro SAKAMOTO, Miyu HAGA, Kenjo MIYASHITA, Naotoshi KADOTANI
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Publication number: 20240220872Abstract: A mobile object is configured to transmit, in response to a gesture of a traffic participant existing in the vicinity of the mobile object being a stop request, an inquiry signal including position information of the traffic participant to a server in order to confirm whether the mobile object provides a specific service to which the traffic participant who has performed the gesture is subscribed. The server is configured to determine, in response to receiving the inquiry signal, whether the traffic participant who made the gesture is one of users subscribed to the specific service and transmit an answer signal including a result of the determination to the mobile object. The mobile object is further configured to perform, in response to receiving the answer signal, an action according to a result of the determination included in the answer signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Mogi, Shuta Yokota, Susumu Oikawa, Takahiro Sakamoto, Miyu Haga, Kenjo Miyashita, Naotoshi Kadotani, Satoshi Omi
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Publication number: 20240202628Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya WATANABE, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11954625Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11915176Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11702093Abstract: A display control device comprising: a depression acquisition part acquiring a current amount of depression of an accelerator pedal; a suitable range calculation part calculating, as a suitable depression range, a range of an amount of accelerator depression required for a following distance of a preceding vehicle and an ego vehicle to become a predetermined target following distance, based on the following distance; and a display control part displaying the current amount of depression and the suitable depression range at a display device able to be viewed by a driver.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Yamaoka, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Publication number: 20230169423Abstract: A vehicle allocation system includes a request reception unit that receives, from a classroom terminal device, vehicle allocation request information that is able to specify an end time of a classroom, the number of planned users who is scheduled to use a vehicle, and a desired alighting point, a route calculation unit that calculates, based on the specified number of planned users and the desired alighting point, and the number of vehicles that is able to be allocated at present, the number of vehicles to allocate and a route to the desired alighting point of each of the planned users, and a plan creation unit that creates a vehicle allocation plan based on the calculated number of vehicles to allocate and the calculated route such that the vehicles are allocated to the classroom as determined by the end time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoto Sasaki, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Publication number: 20230150545Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first prediction unit that predicts a reaching time for a vehicle to reach a cross point in front of the vehicle in a case where a pedestrian who crosses the cross point is detected based on information transmitted from a wearable device attached to the pedestrian, a second prediction unit that predicts a crossing time for the pedestrian to complete crossing the cross point based on information for specifying a walking speed acquired from the wearable device, an estimation unit that estimates whether or not the pedestrian is able to safely cross the cross point based on the predicted reaching time and the predicted crossing time, and an execution controller that executes a safe driving assistance control with respect to the vehicle in a case where the estimation unit estimates that the pedestrian is not able to safely cross the cross point.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoto Sasaki, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Publication number: 20230114510Abstract: A shopping service mediation system includes: a request distribution unit configured to distribute a request from a terminal apparatus related to a consignor who wishes to be entrusted, to other terminal apparatuses; an acceptance receiving unit configured to receive acceptances transmitted from the terminal apparatuses related to consignment applicants in response to the request; a determination unit configured to determine a formal consignee from the consignment applicants related to the terminal apparatuses each having transmitted the acceptance; and a confirmation unit configured to confirm completion of the shopping service, wherein each user's use tendency based on the number of entrustments and the number of times entrusted can be displayed on the terminal apparatus corresponding to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoto SASAKI, Makoto KAWAHARADA, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Kenichi OKUMURA, Naotoshi KADOTANI
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Publication number: 20230114643Abstract: A vehicle dispatch service system that provides a vehicle dispatch service in which a vehicle is dispatched to a user to arrive at a hospital at an appointment time of the hospital includes: an arrival time calculation unit that calculates a time at which the vehicle is estimated to arrive at the hospital as an estimated arrival time; an arrival estimation unit that acquires the estimated arrival time from the arrival time calculation unit and estimates whether the user is in time for the appointment time of the hospital; a rebooking unit that resets, when the arrival estimation unit estimates that the user is not in time for the appointment time, a new appointment time as the appointment time based on the estimated arrival time; and rebooking output unit that outputs the new appointment time to a predetermined output destination such that the user recognizes the new appointment time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoto Sasaki, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Publication number: 20230110846Abstract: A household service matching system built on a communication network, includes: a request disclosing unit configured to disclose on the communication network, a request transmitted from a terminal apparatus related to a client who wishes to entrust household service; an acceptance receiving unit configured to receive an acceptance transmitted from a terminal apparatus related to a consignment applicant in response to the request; a determination unit configured to determine a formal consignee from consignment applicants related to the terminal apparatuses having transmitted the acceptance; a vehicle dispatching unit configured to dispatch a vehicle for picking up the formal consignee to a designated position designated by the formal consignee; and a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle such that the vehicle that carries the formal consignee arrives at the client's address.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoto SASAKI, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Publication number: 20230102225Abstract: A delivery management system includes: a registration unit configured to register as registrants, persons each being preset or may be set as consignees; an association unit configured to store a second person in association with a first person; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not there are a delivery package scheduled to be delivered to the first person as the consignee and a delivery package scheduled to be delivered to the second person as the consignee; and a delivery information management unit configured to make an adjustment such that a delivery place and a delivery date and time related to the first person who is determined to have the delivery package matches those related to the second person who is determined to have the delivery package, and configured to notify each of the persons of adjustment delivery information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoto Sasaki, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
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Patent number: 11615433Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device is configured to dispatch a vehicle having an autonomous driving function to a user, the device includes: a search unit configured to search for a first alternative moving object when the vehicle cannot continue the autonomous driving to the destination during the autonomous driving of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer at a boarding position which is within a predetermined distance from a position on a route to an end position of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, within a predetermined time from alighting from the vehicle; and a grant unit configured to grant a reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa, Yuji Sasaki, Masafumi Hayakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11373126Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11354619Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device includes a position determination unit determining whether or not a destination and a delivery place match each other, a calculation unit calculates a delivery service fee to the delivery place, and a distance determination unit determining whether or not a boarding distance from a boarding position to the destination is equal to or longer than a reference boarding distance, wherein when the destination and the delivery place do not match each other and the boarding distance is not equal to or longer than the reference boarding distance, the calculation unit calculates a first delivery service fee, and when the destination and the delivery place do not match each other and the boarding distance is equal to or longer than the reference boarding distance, the calculation unit calculates a second delivery service fee, which is lower than the first delivery service fee.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naotoshi Kadotani, Seiji Arakawa, Junya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11300421Abstract: An alighting position setting device includes an option presentation unit configured to present an occupant of a vehicle with multiple options set in advance relating to a request for an alighting position for a destination when the vehicle in an autonomous driving toward the destination set in advance approaches the destination, an option recognition unit configured to recognize the option selected by the occupant from the multiple options, and an alighting position setting unit configured to set an alighting position based on the request for the alighting position corresponding to the option selected by the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa, Yuji Sasaki, Masafumi Hayakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Takashi Hayashi
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Publication number: 20220058675Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device is configured to dispatch a vehicle having an autonomous driving function to a user, the device includes: a search unit configured to search for a first alternative moving object when the vehicle cannot continue the autonomous driving to the destination during the autonomous driving of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer at a boarding position which is within a predetermined distance from a position on a route to an end position of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, within a predetermined time from alighting from the vehicle; and a grant unit configured to grant a reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya WATANABE, Seiji ARAKAWA, Yuji SASAKI, Masafumi HAYAKAWA, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Takashi HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220058559Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya WATANABE, Yuji SASAKI, Seiji ARAKAWA, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Masafumi HAYAKAWA, Takashi HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220058954Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya WATANABE, Yuji SASAKI, Seiji ARAKAWA, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Masafumi HAYAKAWA, Takashi HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11250707Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a road shape recognition unit that recognizes a road shape of a traveling road, a path estimation unit that estimates a path of the host vehicle based on the road shape, an obstacle situation recognition unit recognizes an obstacle situation surrounding the host vehicle including at least a relative position of the obstacle with respect to the host vehicle, an early avoidance assistance determination unit that determines a need for early avoidance assistance for avoiding collision between the host vehicle and the obstacle from a distance between the host vehicle and the obstacle on the path of the host vehicle based on the path of the host vehicle and the obstacle situation, and a collision avoidance assistance execution unit executes the early avoidance assistance in a case where the early avoidance assistance determination unit determines that the early avoidance assistance is needed.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Yamaoka, Yoshinori Watanabe, Naotoshi Kadotani