Patents by Inventor Rio MINAGAWA
Rio MINAGAWA 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: 11912276Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
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Patent number: 11904879Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
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Patent number: 11900495Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller. The controller is configured to: when the controller determines that boarding or alighting by a user or loading or unloading of luggage is to be performed with respect to the vehicle, control the vehicle to project visual information to, or set a geo-fence on, at least a part of a region within a predetermined range from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Roger Kyle, Yuta Kodama, Corentin Marie C. Mossoux, Shunsuke Tanimori, Rio Minagawa, Dany Benjamin
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Patent number: 11891079Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
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CONTROL APPARATUS, SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD
Publication number: 20220067787Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire destination data indicating a destination of at least one vehicle, and when the at least one vehicle travels through a section, on a road, from which an advertising sign installed outdoors is visible, perform control to display, on the advertising sign, an advertisement that is customized according to the destination indicated by the destination data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Yuta Kodama, Hideo Hasegawa, Rio Minagawa, Corentin Marie C. Mossoux, Chris Risberg -
Publication number: 20220048519Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires first information on a behavior of a first vehicle associated with each operation performed by a first driver on the first vehicle and second information on a change in emotion of a user who shares the first vehicle, extracts information on a change in the user's emotion associated with each behavior of the first vehicle by associating the first information with the second information, determines a user's evaluation of the first driver's driving based on information on the change in the user's emotion associated with each behavior of the first vehicle, and stores the determined evaluation in a storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Takumi Fukunaga, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
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Publication number: 20220049966Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire destination data indicating a destination to which a customer is heading with a vehicle that has stopped in front of a service facility, and perform control to output content that is customized according to the destination indicated by the destination data from an output device included in the service facility during a waiting time period for the customer that occurs while a service is provided by the service facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Yuta Kodama, Hideo Hasegawa, Rio Minagawa, Chris Risberg
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Publication number: 20220038844Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller. The controller is configured to: when the controller determines that boarding or alighting by a user or loading or unloading of luggage is to be performed with respect to the vehicle, control the vehicle to project visual information to, or set a geo-fence on, at least a part of a region within a predetermined range from the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Roger KYLE, Yuta KODAMA, Corentin Marie C. MOSSOUX, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Rio MINAGAWA, Dany BENJAMIN
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Publication number: 20220032909Abstract: A control apparatus that is communicably connected to a towing vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller configured to: acquire positional information for a towing target vehicle to be towed; at a location within a predetermined distance from a location corresponding to the positional information, identify the towing target vehicle; based on a targeted relative relationship between the towing vehicle and the towing target vehicle, control the towing vehicle; and when a difference between the targeted relative relationship and an actual relative relationship is within an allowable range, operate a towing apparatus of the towing vehicle to tow the towing target vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Roger Kyle, Yuta Kodama, Corentin Marie C. Mossoux, Shunsuke Tanimori, Rio Minagawa, Dany Benjamin
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Publication number: 20220032834Abstract: A control apparatus is a control apparatus that is communicably connected to a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller configured to: identify the first vehicle as a transfer destination for a luggage item stored in the second vehicle; read a targeted relative relationship between the second vehicle and the first vehicle; control the second vehicle based on the targeted relative relationship; and when a difference between the targeted relative relationship and an actual relative relationship is within an allowable range, convey the luggage item from the second vehicle to the first vehicle using a conveyer of the first vehicle or the second vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Roger Kyle, Yuta Kodama, Corentin Marie C. Mossoux, Shunsuke Tanimori, Rio Minagawa, Dany Benjamin
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Publication number: 20210407691Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus, and a plurality of second information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus acquires movement history information on an infected person with a predetermined infectious disease, identifies, based on the movement history information, a first place that the infected person visited and a first visit date and time, and notifies the second information processing apparatus associated with the first place of information about the first place and the first visit date and time. Each second information processing apparatus identifies, based on visit history information including a visit date and time of the predetermined place by users who are associated with the predetermined place, a first user who visited the first place on the first visit date and time, and notify the first user of possibility of being infected with the predetermined infectious disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20210291856Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to execute: obtaining a situation around a vehicle or a road situation to generate reference data, which is data of a driving operation serving as a reference; and performing predetermined processing when a degree of deviation between driving data, which is data of a driving operation by a driver of the vehicle, and the reference data is equal to or greater than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20210289331Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprises a controller configured to perform: acquiring traveling-related data related to traveling of two or more vehicles including a first vehicle and a second vehicle; determining, based on the traveling-related data, that the first vehicle is in any one of a plurality of predefined situations; identifying, based on the traveling-related data, the second vehicle that is located in a vicinity of the first vehicle and is involved in the determined situation; determining, based on the determined situation and a preference associated with the second vehicle, an image to be transmitted to the second vehicle; and transmitting the image to the second vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210256851Abstract: A vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane is allowed to smoothly merge into a main lane. An information processing apparatus includes a controller is configured to: identify a second vehicle traveling on a main lane behind a cutting-in position at which a first vehicle traveling on an acceleration lane cuts in; and perform at least any one of notifying the first vehicle of first guidance that prompts the first vehicle to merge into the main lane at a far end of the acceleration lane, and notifying the second vehicle of second guidance that prompts the second vehicle to assist the first vehicle in merging into the main lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Hikaru GOTOH, Josuke YAMANE, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20210253099Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru GOTOH, Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Josuke YAMANE, Rio MINAGAWA, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210233398Abstract: This disclosure achieves smooth traffic. An information processing apparatus has a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining first data representing a driving tendency of a first vehicle; obtaining second data representing a driving tendency of each second vehicle located in the vicinity of the first vehicle; aggregating the second data corresponding to a plurality of the second vehicles thereby to generate reference data; and calculating a degree of similarity between the first data and the reference data thereby to notify a driver of the first vehicle when there is a deviation of a predetermined value or more between the first data and the reference data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin SAKURADA, Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20210221394Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20210221395Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki UENOYAMA, Josuke YAMANE, Hikaru GOTOH, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO, Rio MINAGAWA