Patents by Inventor Nobutsugu MARUIWA

Nobutsugu MARUIWA 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: 11904847
    Abstract: An automatic parking system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a state of a parking lot. A blind spot area that does not allow the state of the parking lot to be detected by the infrastructure sensor is identified in the parking lot, and the state of the parking including the blind spot area, the state of the parking lot being detected by an on-board sensor of a vehicle in the parking lot, is acquired. Based on the state of the parking lot detected by the infrastructure sensor and the state of the parking lot that includes the blind spot area and that is detected by the on-board sensor of the vehicle in the parking lot, a travel route for the vehicle traveling in the parking lot is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20240010239
    Abstract: A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product includes a provision time acquisition unit 6 that acquires a provision time of a product ordered by a driver driving the vehicle to the store, a parking location determination unit that determines a parking location of the vehicle entering the parking lot based on the provision time acquired by the provision time acquisition unit, and a guidance information generation unit that generates guidance information for guidance of the vehicle to the parking location determined by the parking location determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20230419828
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Patent number: 11810458
    Abstract: A parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a sunlight state of a parking space in a parking lot, and a notification device that notifies at least one of a vehicle including a solar power generation function and a user of the parking lot of the sunlight state of each parking space detected by the infrastructure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20230326341
    Abstract: A control unit of a server is a device that adjusts a parking position of a vehicle in a parking lot, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive a package in the parking lot, and an adjustment information generation unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting parking of another vehicle in a parking slot adjacent to the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive the package in the parking lot such that a space is secured around the vehicle scheduled to receive the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO, Satoshi OMI
  • Publication number: 20230326214
    Abstract: A device that monitors an abnormal situation that has occurred in a region inside or around a parking lot using a vehicle in the region includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state within the region; an abnormality detection unit that detects the abnormal situation and specifies an occurrence location of the detected abnormal situation based on the state information; and a command transmission unit that transmits a command for activating a vehicle exterior monitoring sensor provided in the vehicle parked around the occurrence location specified by the abnormality detection unit and causing the vehicle exterior monitoring sensor to detect the occurrence location to the parked vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20230322209
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a receiving unit that receives a vehicle movement request transmitted from a user so as to move a parked vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies the parked vehicle from among the vehicles in a parking lot based on the vehicle movement request; and a transmitting unit that transmits a vehicle movement mode command to the parked vehicle, the vehicle movement mode command being a command for causing a driving mode of the parked vehicle specified by the specifying unit to transition to a vehicle movement mode in which the parked vehicle is caused to execute a vehicle movement operation for moving the parked vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20230315091
    Abstract: A moving body control method controls a moving body having a function of operating in accordance with a remote instruction in a predetermined area. The moving body control method includes: a remote instruction verification process that determines whether or not the remote instruction received by the moving body is valid; and an operation limiting process that limits at least a part of an operation of the moving body without following the remote instruction, when the remote instruction received by the moving body is invalid. The remote instruction verification process includes: determining whether or not the moving body is present in the predetermined area at a time when the moving body receives the remote instruction; and determining that the remote instruction is invalid, when the moving body is not present in the predetermined area at the time when the moving body receives the remote instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutsugu MARUIWA
  • Patent number: 11657713
    Abstract: A management system of an automated valet parking lot according to an example in the present disclosure is a management system of an automated valet parking lot attached to a facility. The management system includes a setting unit for setting a management area for the facility, an authentication unit for performing, when a vehicle is deposited in the automated valet parking lot, usage authentication of the automated valet parking lot with a portable terminal associated with the vehicle, a tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable terminal authenticated for the usage, and a notification unit for notifying the portable terminal of an alarm when the portable terminal is outside the management area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Publication number: 20230131581
    Abstract: An automated valet parking system that performs automated valet parking includes an attention target space setter configured to set, based on a target parking space of an entry vehicle and parking place map information including entrance position information of a parking place, attention target spaces that are parking spaces that affect entry of the entry vehicle when any other vehicle is entering or exiting the attention target spaces among parking spaces around the target parking space, and a vehicle instructor configured to, when determination is made that attention target vehicles that are autonomous driving vehicles entering or exiting the attention target spaces are present, give an entry start instruction to the entry vehicle after determination is made that all the attention target vehicles have completed entry or exit from the parking spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugano, Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Publication number: 20230117967
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an in-vehicle sensor that detects an environment around the vehicle; an autonomous driving unit that executes automated valet parking based on the detection result from the in-vehicle sensor; a detection unit that detects dirt or a raindrop attached to the in-vehicle sensor before the automated valet parking is started by the autonomous driving unit; and an informing unit that outputs information that suggests removing the dirt or the raindrop on the in-vehicle sensor in response to the detection unit detecting the dirt or the raindrop attached to the in-vehicle sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Tatsuya Sugano
  • Publication number: 20230064215
    Abstract: An automatic parking system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a state of a parking lot. A blind spot area that does not allow the state of the parking lot to be detected by the infrastructure sensor is identified in the parking lot, and the state of the parking including the blind spot area, the state of the parking lot being detected by an on-board sensor of a vehicle in the parking lot, is acquired. Based on the state of the parking lot detected by the infrastructure sensor and the state of the parking lot that includes the blind spot area and that is detected by the on-board sensor of the vehicle in the parking lot, a travel route for the vehicle traveling in the parking lot is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20230060036
    Abstract: An automatic parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor for detecting a preset range in a parking lot. A mobile body including a peripheral detection sensor is used, and the mobile body is able to be moved to a detectable position at which the peripheral detection sensor of the mobile body is able to detect a detection range of the infrastructure sensor. When determination is made that there is an abnormality in the infrastructure sensor, the mobile body is moved to the detectable position to cause the peripheral detection sensor to detect the detection range of the infrastructure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20230055909
    Abstract: A parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a sunlight state of a parking space in a parking lot, and a notification device that notifies at least one of a vehicle including a solar power generation function and a user of the parking lot of the sunlight state of each parking space detected by the infrastructure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20220281440
    Abstract: The parking place control server includes a vehicle information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of the autonomous driving vehicle in the parking place and positional information of a general vehicle in the parking place, a communication availability determination unit configured to determine whether or not the general vehicle is a server communicable vehicle that is able to communicate with the parking place control server, a notification target vehicle detection unit configured to detect a first notification target vehicle that is the autonomous driving vehicle as a notification target for the server communicable vehicle based on the positional information of the autonomous driving vehicle and positional information of the server communicable vehicle, and a notification unit configured to, when the notification target vehicle detection unit detects the first notification target vehicle, notify the server communicable vehicle of presence of the first notification target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Publication number: 20220270484
    Abstract: A parking lot control server includes: a storage configured to store contour information about a contour of each parked vehicle in a parking lot; an extractor configured to extract contour information corresponding to one or more parked vehicles that are around a travel path of a first vehicle that newly enters the parking lot; and a distributor configured to distribute the extracted contour information to the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuo Sugano, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Publication number: 20220258727
    Abstract: The system includes a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires positional information of target vehicles including the autonomous driving vehicle and a communicative vehicle which is not capable of performing autonomous driving and is capable of performing inter-vehicle communication in the parking place, a condition determination unit that determines whether or not the target vehicles satisfy an inter-vehicle communication traveling condition, and an inter-vehicle communication traveling instruction unit that causes the target vehicles determined to satisfy the inter-vehicle communication traveling condition by the condition determination unit to perform inter-vehicle communication traveling by inter-vehicle communication. In the inter-vehicle communication traveling, the autonomous driving vehicle is caused to preferentially perform vehicle speed adjustment for vehicle approach suppression by the inter-vehicle communication over the target vehicle speed for the automated valet parking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Patent number: 11189170
    Abstract: A server includes a vehicle determination unit, an hour determination unit, and an authentication code transmission unit. The vehicle determination unit is configured to determine whether a reservation object vehicle corresponding to reservation vehicle information is in a parking place object area preset based on detection information of a parking place sensor and the reservation vehicle information. The hour determination unit is configured to determine whether a current hour is equal to or later than a transmission start hour. The authentication code transmission unit is configured to transmit an authentication code to a user terminal of a reservation user, when the vehicle determination unit determines that the reservation object vehicle is in the parking place object area and the hour determination unit determines that the current hour is equal to or later than the transmission start hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Publication number: 20210287542
    Abstract: A management system of an automated valet parking lot according to an example in the present disclosure is a management system of an automated valet parking lot attached to a facility. The management system includes a setting unit for setting a management area for the facility, an authentication unit for performing, when a vehicle is deposited in the automated valet parking lot, usage authentication of the automated valet parking lot with a portable terminal associated with the vehicle, a tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable terminal authenticated for the usage, and a notification unit for notifying the portable terminal of an alarm when the portable terminal is outside the management area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Nobutsugu MARUIWA
  • Publication number: 20210110714
    Abstract: A server includes a vehicle determination unit, an hour determination unit, and an authentication code transmission unit. The vehicle determination unit is configured to determine whether a reservation object vehicle corresponding to reservation vehicle information is in a parking place object area preset based on detection information of a parking place sensor and the reservation vehicle information. The hour determination unit is configured to determine whether a current hour is equal to or later than a transmission start hour. The authentication code transmission unit is configured to transmit an authentication code to a user terminal of a reservation user, when the vehicle determination unit determines that the reservation object vehicle is in the parking place object area and the hour determination unit determines that the current hour is equal to or later than the transmission start hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa