Patents by Inventor Osamu Izumida
Osamu Izumida 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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Patent number: 12083241Abstract: A taxi vehicle that autonomously transports a user to a destination with no driver in the vehicle includes a cleaning device and a notification device. The cleaning device is configured to perform cleaning processing for removing at least one of harmful materials and odors from a vehicle cabin after the user has finished using the taxi vehicle. The harmful materials are those harmful to a human body. The notification device is configured to notify a person of the cleaning degree of the vehicle cabin. The person is a person outside the vehicle who wishes to use the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Kakuchi, Osamu Izumida, Shunji Inoue, Takumi Hamajima, Mitsushi Kintaka, Toshihiro Andou, Masamitsu Takahira
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Patent number: 12002366Abstract: A taxi system includes a taxi vehicle that runs autonomously with a user on board and transports the user, and at least one auxiliary vehicle capable of registering the taxi vehicle as a linkage target and running by following the taxi vehicle as the linkage target with luggage loaded in the at least one auxiliary vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Kakuchi, Osamu Izumida, Shunji Inoue, Takumi Hamajima, Mitsushi Kintaka, Toshihiro Andou, Masamitsu Takahira
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Publication number: 20240084382Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
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Patent number: 11884184Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
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Patent number: 11643083Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller decides whether or not specifications of a proposed vehicle to be proposed to a customer are determined such that the specifications are for an electrified vehicle based on traveling data of a vehicle driven by the customer and outputs the decided specifications.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
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Publication number: 20220358497Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of unmanned taxi vehicles; a medium reader that is mounted on the unmanned taxi vehicle, and outputs a result obtained by reading a certificate medium presented by the occupant, as read data; and a system controller that acquires, by analyzing the read data, ticket information including at least one of a destination and payment information, and executes, based on the acquired ticket information, at least one of setting of the destination of the unmanned taxi vehicle and execution of a payment, in which the certificate medium is a medium issued to the occupant in order to authenticate the occupant in a situation other than taxi use.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220335833Abstract: A taxicab system includes a plurality of taxicab vehicles which are all autonomous vehicles, and a management device. Each taxicab vehicle can form a vehicle group with other taxicab vehicles according to an instruction from a customer or the management device. The vehicle group includes one representative vehicle and at least one subordinate vehicle. The representative vehicle and the subordinate vehicle execute at least one of a collective billing process for charging a representative customer a fare for each of the plurality of vehicles, and a collective setting process for setting a place designated by the representative customer as a destination of each of the vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220315060Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of taxi vehicles that each transport a user to a destination by automatic driving; and a management center, in which the management center, when a prescribed protection condition is satisfied, instructs one or more unmanned taxi vehicles to execute the protection traveling that is traveling while protecting a manned taxi group including one or more manned taxi vehicles, and the unmanned taxi vehicle, when having received an execution instruction of the protection traveling, protects the manned taxi group by traveling adjacently to the manned taxi group in a front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220265881Abstract: A taxi vehicle that autonomously transports a user to a destination with no driver in the vehicle includes a cleaning device and a notification device. The cleaning device is configured to perform cleaning processing for removing at least one of harmful materials and odors from a vehicle cabin after the user has finished using the taxi vehicle. The harmful materials are those harmful to a human body. The notification device is configured to notify a person of the cleaning degree of the vehicle cabin. The person is a person outside the vehicle who wishes to use the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220270489Abstract: A taxi system includes a taxi vehicle that runs autonomously with a user on board and transports the user, and at least one auxiliary vehicle capable of registering the taxi vehicle as a linkage target and running by following the taxi vehicle as the linkage target with luggage loaded in the at least one auxiliary vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220156692Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages delivery of a predetermined product that is delivered on a regular basis to a specific place associated with a user. The information processing apparatus estimates, when the user is to temporarily stay at a place of stay other than the specific place, a necessary quantity that is a quantity of the predetermined product needed by the user during a period of stay at the place of stay, and generates a delivery plan for the predetermined product in such a way that the predetermined product is delivered in the necessary quantity to the place of stay at a timing of stay of the user at the place of stay.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Koshi ITO, Ayana TAKESHITA, Daisuke MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220156774Abstract: A controller comprising at least one processor of an information processing apparatus acquires first information about delivery of a specific product that is delivered, on a regular basis, to a specific house where at least one user lives. Furthermore, the controller acquires second information about at least one member who is scheduled to be present in the specific house in a predetermined period. The predetermined period is a period between a scheduled date of next delivery of the specific product to the specific house and a first scheduled date, after the scheduled date, of delivery of the specific product to the specific house. Then, the controller predicts a demanded quantity of the specific product in the specific house in the predetermined period, based on the first information and the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Koshi ITO, Ayana TAKESHITA, Daisuke MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220157174Abstract: A vehicle is allocated to a user when a first predictor is detected, the first predictor being a predictor indicating that the user is to go out from a predetermined location. At this time, a control unit of an information processing device sends, to the user, a notification for confirming whether the user needs the vehicle at the time when a second predictor is detected, the second predictor being a predictor indicating that the user is to go out from the predetermined location and being a predictor other than the first predictor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Izumida, Mitsuhiro Miura, Xin Jin, Genshi Kuno
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Publication number: 20220156701Abstract: A control unit of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire schedule information including information on schedule time that is time at which a visitor is scheduled to visit a user in a predetermined place. The control unit is configured to, when a sign that the user leaves the predetermined place before the schedule time is detected based on an action of the user in the predetermined place, provide a notification to the user or the visitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Izumida, Mitsuhiro Miura, Xin Jin, Genshi Kuno
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Publication number: 20220138823Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire a purchase history of products purchased by a user in a past, make a determination, based on the purchase history, that there is a target product that is purchased by the user on a regular basis, and make a proposal to the user, based on a result of the determination, to purchase the target product using a periodic purchase service.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Koshi ITO, Ayana TAKESHITA, Daisuke MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220129859Abstract: A controller in an information processing device is configured to acquire first information about a plurality of users respectively present at a plurality of locations within a predetermined region, the first information including information related to a current behavior of each of the users at each of the locations or a behavior predicted to be taken by each of the users at each of the locations within a predetermined period. Further, the controller is configured to decide order of visiting when a visitor who visits the users visits the users based on the first information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Izumida, Mitsuhiro Miura, Xin Jin, Genshi Kuno
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Publication number: 20220092528Abstract: A controller of an information providing apparatus identifies, based on information input in the accommodation facility or the residential facility, an object, delivery of which is desired by the user. Furthermore, the controller outputs a provision request for the object. The provision request for the object includes delivery of the object to a place where the object is loaded onto an autonomous mobile body that is capable of transporting the object to an existing location of the user in the accommodation facility or the residential facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Osamu IZUMIDA, Xin JIN, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yoh IKEDA, Tomoya MAKINO
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Publication number: 20220092902Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires biometric information of a user at a time of reception for use of the facility by the user. Furthermore, the controller associates the biometric information of the user with information indicating the user. Moreover, the controller registers the biometric information of the user as a key to be used in the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Osamu IZUMIDA, Xin JIN, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yoh IKEDA, Tomoya MAKINO
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Publication number: 20210171047Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller decides whether or not specifications of a proposed vehicle to be proposed to a customer are determined such that the specifications are for an electrified vehicle based on traveling data of a vehicle driven by the customer and outputs the decided specifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
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Publication number: 20210170832Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle cabin, a filter configured to allow air blown toward the vehicle cabin to pass through the filter while adsorbing at least a portion of a substance contained in the air, a sensor configured to detect the state of the air passing through the filter, and a control device configured to output information relating to maintenance of the filter based on the result of detection performed by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii