Patents by Inventor Naoya Oka

Naoya Oka 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: 20230281571
    Abstract: A server that manages each of a plurality of vehicles includes a processor. The processor is configured to communicate with each of the vehicles, a first maintenance location, and a second maintenance location. Each of the vehicles includes a vehicle body and an on-board control device attached to the vehicle body. The first maintenance location is a location where maintenance of the vehicle body is able to be performed. The second maintenance location is a location where maintenance of the on-board control device is able to be performed. The processor is configured to acquire state information on a state of each of the vehicles. The processor is configured to decide assignment of maintenance of the vehicle to either or both of the first maintenance location and the second maintenance location, based on the state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Naoya OKA, Naoko MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11745746
    Abstract: A method for generating vehicle controlling data includes executing an operating process that operates an electronic device, executing an obtaining process that obtains a state of a vehicle, executing a reward calculation process that assigns a reward based on the state of the vehicle, and an updating process that updates relationship specifying data. The reward calculation process includes a changing process that changes a reward assigned when an area variable equals a second value and a property of the vehicle is a predetermined property from a reward assigned when the area variable equals a first value and the property of the vehicle is the predetermined property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Publication number: 20230274223
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device including a controller configured to execute calculating, based on first information on a travel scheduled route of a vehicle that delivers a package of a user, an emission amount that is an amount of carbon dioxide predicted to be emitted by the vehicle to redeliver the package for each of a plurality of first time zones in which the package is able to be redelivered to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Shunsuke SAGARA, Naoya OKA
  • Patent number: 11738747
    Abstract: A server device includes: a server communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle, and receive fallen object avoidance information from the vehicle, the fallen object avoidance information including position information on a fallen object and information indicating whether an avoidance operation was performed by the vehicle for the fallen object; and a server control unit configured to determine, for the same fallen object that is present at the same position, whether the same fallen object should be avoided based on the fallen object avoidance information, and notify a first following vehicle that the same fallen object should be avoided when the server control unit determines that the same fallen object should be avoided, the first following vehicle being a vehicle that is traveling within a predetermined range behind the same fallen object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Kameda, Misa Ejiri, Shintaro Naruse, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Naoya Oka, Kensuke Koike, Hiroyuki Monji
  • Patent number: 11727418
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes an object to acquire information indicating a tendency on a visit spot for each vehicle sort. The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus including a controller configured to execute: acquiring first information about a plurality of vehicles, the first information including vehicle information about a vehicle, the first information not being capable of identifying an individual user or an individual vehicle but reflecting at least part of attributes or preferences of a user associated with the vehicle, and spot information about a visit spot of the vehicle; and acquiring tendency information indicating a tendency on the visit spot of the vehicle for each vehicle classification based on the vehicle information, from the first information about the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Josuke Yamane, Naoya Oka, Ryosuke Yamamoto, Kaori Okuda
  • Patent number: 11705003
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating a loudness of sound emitted by a second vehicle parked within a predetermined range from a first vehicle or a vehicle height of the second vehicle, and in a case in which the controller determines that the loudness or the vehicle height exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the controller provides a predetermined notification to the first vehicle via a communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Yurika Tanaka, Shoji Sakamoto, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kotaro Okabe, Hirotada Nakanishi, Naoya Oka, Daiki Otani
  • Patent number: 11697421
    Abstract: A method for generating vehicle controlling data includes executing an operating process that operates an electronic device, executing an obtaining process that obtains a state of a vehicle, executing a reward calculation process that assigns a reward based on the state of the vehicle, and an updating process that updates relationship specifying data. The reward calculation process includes a changing process that changes a reward assigned when an area variable equals a second value and a property of the vehicle is a predetermined property from a reward assigned when the area variable equals a first value and the property of the vehicle is the predetermined property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11691639
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a memory, a first processor mounted in a vehicle, and a second processor different from an in-vehicle device. The first processor and the second processor are configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, and update processing. The first processor is configured to execute at least the acquisition processing and the operation processing, and the second processor is configured to execute the update processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11694547
    Abstract: A server includes a server communication unit, a server control unit, and a server storage unit, and is connected in a communicable manner to a first vehicle and a second vehicle via the server communication unit. The server control unit transmits an imaging start command to the second vehicle, which runs within a predetermined range from an accident site, in response to the reception of an accident notification associated with positional information on the accident site from the first vehicle, receives an imaged image from the second vehicle, and stores the imaged image into the server storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Kameda, Misa Ejiri, Shintaro Naruse, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Naoya Oka, Kensuke Koike, Hiroyuki Monji
  • Patent number: 11679784
    Abstract: A vehicle control data generation method is provided. A self-driving mode of a vehicle automatically generates a command value of a propelling force produced by a propelling force generator independently of an accelerator operation. An execution device provides a greater reward based on an obtained state of the vehicle when a standard of a characteristic of the vehicle is met than when the standard is not met. Providing the reward changes a reward that is provided when the characteristic of the vehicle is a predetermined characteristic in the self-driving mode such that the changed reward differs from a reward that is provided when the characteristic of the vehicle is the predetermined characteristic in a manual driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11673556
    Abstract: A method of generating vehicle control data includes: storing, with a storage device, relationship prescription data; operating, with an execution device, an operable portion of an internal combustion engine; acquiring, with the execution device, a detection value from a sensor that detects the state of the vehicle; calculating, with the execution device, a reward; and updating, with the execution device, the relationship prescription data using update mapping determined in advance, the update mapping using the state of the vehicle based on the detection value, an operation amount used to operate the operable portion, and the reward corresponding to the operation as arguments, and returning the relationship prescription data which have been updated such that an expected profit for the reward calculated when the operable portion is operated in accordance with the relationship prescription data increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11654890
    Abstract: A vehicle control data generation method includes causing processing circuitry to execute an obtaining process that obtains a state of a vehicle and a specifying variable, an operating process that operates an electronic device, a reward calculating process that provides a greater reward when a characteristic of the vehicle meets a standard than when the characteristic does not meet the standard, an updating process that updates relationship defining data. The update map outputs the updated relationship defining data so as to increase an expected return for the reward in a case where the electronic device is operated in accordance with the relationship defining data. The reward calculating process includes a changing process that changes the reward between when the characteristic of the vehicle is a predetermined characteristic in an EV mode and when the characteristic is the predetermined characteristic in a HV mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11654915
    Abstract: Provided is a method of generating vehicle control data. The method is applied to a vehicle configured to select one of a plurality of traveling control modes and is executed by a processor in a state in which relationship definition data defining a relationship between a state of the vehicle and an action variable as a variable relating to an operation of electronic equipment in the vehicle is stored in a memory. The method includes operation processing for operating the electronic equipment, acquisition processing for acquiring a detection value of a sensor configured to detect the state of the vehicle, reward calculation processing for providing reward, and update processing for updating the relationship definition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11651690
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to, upon detecting parking of a vehicle at a spot where parking is prohibited, generate control data for controlling the vehicle to prevent a state of the vehicle from transitioning to a state in which a power source of the vehicle is stopped and an occupant of the vehicle is out of the vehicle, and output the generated control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Shunsuke Sagara, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11643064
    Abstract: An execution device executes an obtaining process that obtains a state of a vehicle, an operating process that operates an electronic device of the vehicle based on the state of the vehicle obtained by the obtaining process and operation data, a performance determining process that determines whether an environmental performance of the vehicle when the electronic device is operated is lower than a determination performance, and a data updating process that updates the operation data so as to increase the environmental performance of the vehicle when the performance determining process determines that the environmental performance of the vehicle is lower than the determination performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11643096
    Abstract: A vehicle learning system includes a first execution device mounted on a vehicle, a second execution device outside the vehicle, and a storage device. The storage device stores mapping data including data, which is learned by machine learning and defines mapping that receives input data based on a detection value of an in-vehicle sensor and outputs an output value. The first execution device and the second execution device execute, in cooperation with each other, an acquisition process of acquiring input data, a calculation process of calculating an output value with the input data as an input of the mapping, and a relationship evaluation process of evaluating a relationship between a predetermined variable different from a variable corresponding to the output value and accuracy of the output value. The first execution device executes at least the acquisition process, and the second execution device executes at least the relationship evaluation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
  • Publication number: 20230127283
    Abstract: The present disclosure properly calculates a wage for coating of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure accepts specification of a first vehicle on which a third coating film is to be newly formed after a second coating film formed on a first coating film is peeled from a vehicle body. The information processing apparatus calculates a wage for operation of forming the third coating film for the first vehicle based on a period elapsed since peeling of the second coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230119037
    Abstract: The present disclosure is for calculating an appropriate insurance premium for a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure determines whether a sticker displaying that an upgrade is performed on an ability of a vehicle in an ex-post manner is attached to a first vehicle. The information processing apparatus identifies contents of the upgrade in a case where the sticker is attached to the first vehicle. The information processing apparatus calculates an insurance premium for the first vehicle by taking into account the contents of the upgrade, in a case where the ability that is upgraded is related to safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu NAGASAKA, Norihiko OSHIO, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Naoya OKA
  • Publication number: 20230121004
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus determines whether a sticker displaying that an upgraded vehicle part is mounted is attached to a first vehicle or not, and performs a process related to valuation of the first vehicle with the upgraded vehicle part taken into account, in a case where the sticker is attached to the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu NAGASAKA, Norihiko OSHIO, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Naoya OKA
  • Patent number: 11631321
    Abstract: A server includes a server communication unit, a server control unit, and a server storage unit, and is connected in a communicable manner to a first vehicle and a second vehicle via the server communication unit. The server control unit transmits an imaging start command to the second vehicle, which runs within a predetermined range from an accident site, in response to the reception of an accident notification associated with positional information on the accident site from the first vehicle, receives an imaged image from the second vehicle, and stores the imaged image into the server storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Kameda, Misa Ejiri, Shintaro Naruse, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Naoya Oka, Kensuke Koike, Hiroyuki Monji