Patents by Inventor Ryotaro Fujiwara
Ryotaro Fujiwara 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: 20240071237Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to predict a scattering range of a chemical to be sprayed onto a field by a first unmanned aircraft and control, in a case in which it is determined that the chemical will scatter near the field based on the scattering range, a three-dimensional position or a travel route of a second unmanned aircraft so that downwash of the second unmanned aircraft prevents scattering of the chemical near the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
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Publication number: 20240067339Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire weather information including a wind speed on a scheduled spraying date and time at which an unmanned aircraft is to spray an agricultural chemical on a field, determine a flight altitude of the unmanned aircraft according to the wind speed, and generate a plan for spraying of the agricultural chemical by the unmanned aircraft, the plan for spraying including the determined flight altitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
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Publication number: 20240053509Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which the controller predicts, based on weather data, that there will be adverse weather that could cause damage to a crop in a field, the controller is configured to present reference information and propose harvesting before the adverse weather.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
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Publication number: 20230363303Abstract: An information processing method is executed by an information processing device configured to decide an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The information processing method includes acquiring information about each of a plurality of farm fields and deciding an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying over a first farm field to be sprayed by the unmanned aerial vehicle based on information about a second farm field located around the first farm field.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
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Patent number: 11481173Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is provided to display advertisement information on a display apparatus installed with a display surface directed to a road, is configured to execute acquisition of a traveling situation of a vehicle which travels on the road; selection of a first display form or a second display form having an amount of information larger than that of the first display form, as the display form of the advertisement information on the basis of the traveling situation; and display of the advertisement information on the display apparatus in the display form selected on the basis of the traveling situation.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
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Patent number: 11480442Abstract: An output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of a user is allowed to timely output information desired by the user. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is an information processing apparatus to be used by a mobile user, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller which executes acquisition of a content designated by the user; specification of an output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of the user; and transmission of the acquired content to the specified output apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
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Patent number: 11354516Abstract: An information processor includes a generation section that generates a specified character string on the basis of at least one of voice information corresponding to a content of speech detected by a voice detection section and vehicle information acquired from a vehicle. With this configuration, a user can input the specified character string, which is a hashtag, without an operation. Thus, compared to the related art in which the hashtag is generated on the basis of the operation (manual input) by the user, a burden on the user can significantly be reduced, and an input error can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryotaro Fujiwara, Keiko Suzuki, Makoto Honda, Chikage Kubo, Ryota Okubi, Takeshi Fujiki
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Patent number: 11221227Abstract: A technique for outputting information relevant to a facility suitable for an action of a user at a point in a traveling route or at a destination is provided. An information processing apparatus comprises a controller which executes acquisition or estimation of a traveling route of a user; calculation of temporal information including at least one of a passage time at which the user passes through a point on the traveling route and a traveling period of time which is required until arrival at the point after starting a travel; acquisition of information relevant to a facility suitable for the user who passes through the point, of a plurality of facilities existing around the point on the basis of the temporal information; and output of the information relevant to the facility by means of an output unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
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Patent number: 11138876Abstract: An information system comprises a controller which is configured to execute: acquiring a screen image of a vehicle which is traveling on a roadway, the screen image being photographed by the aid of an image pickup unit; detecting a dangerous driving state of the vehicle which is traveling, in accordance with a time course of the screen image; and displaying information in relation to the vehicle having been detected to be in the dangerous driving state on a signage apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
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Patent number: 11059484Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a vehicle group search unit that acquires a most frequent vehicle speed of the vehicle and to search for one or more vehicle group, the most frequent vehicle speed being a vehicle speed that is most frequent, the vehicle group traveling at one of the most frequent vehicle speed and a speed close to the most frequent vehicle speed; a distance information generation unit that generates the vehicle group searched for by the vehicle group search unit and distance information on a distance between the vehicle group and an information-receiving vehicle that has sent the most frequent vehicle speed; and a merging assistance unit that sends the distance information generated by the distance information generation unit to a user terminal device and assists the vehicle in merging into one of the vehicle groups searched for by the vehicle group search unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryotaro Fujiwara, Ryota Okubi, Daisuke Furukawa, Ko Koga, Takeshi Inoshita, Toshiyuki Hagiya
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Patent number: 10977937Abstract: A parking lot guidance device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause a communication unit to transmit exit information to a vehicle with the highest priority among other vehicles that are transmission targets. The exit information includes information of a size of a parking section in which a host vehicle is parked, information of a position of the parking section in which the host vehicle is parked, and information of a start of exit of the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Inoshita, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Ko Koga, Daisuke Furukawa, Ryota Okubi, Toshiyuki Hagiya
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Patent number: 10818168Abstract: A driving support device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. When a vehicle is placed inside a rest facility and at least one of parameters indicative of respective states of traffic jams on roads ahead of and behind the rest facility satisfy a predetermined reference, the processor transmits, to a device related to the vehicle, information that proposes a departure from the rest facility.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Furukawa, Takeshi Inoshita, Ryota Okubi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Ko Koga, Toshiyuki Hagiya
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Publication number: 20200184010Abstract: An information processor includes a generation section that generates a specified character string on the basis of at least one of voice information corresponding to a content of speech detected by a voice detection section and vehicle information acquired from a vehicle. With this configuration, a user can input the specified character string, which is a hashtag, without an operation. Thus, compared to the related art in which the hashtag is generated on the basis of the operation (manual input) by the user, a burden on the user can significantly be reduced, and an input error can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryotaro Fujiwara, Keiko Suzuki, Makoto Honda, Chikage Kubo, Ryota Okubi, Takeshi Fujiki
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Publication number: 20200158513Abstract: An information processor includes: a purpose estimation portion configured to estimate a moving purpose of a user to a destination based on destination information that is information indicative of the destination set by the user; and a candidate facility proposing portion configured to determine a candidate drop-in facility where the user drops in between a departure place and the destination by use of at least the moving purpose and to propose the candidate drop-in facility thus determined to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiko SUZUKI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Chikage KUBO, Takeshi FUJIKI, Makoto HONDA, Ryota OKUBI
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Publication number: 20200160247Abstract: A To-Do management apparatus includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to detect a time in which a driver of a vehicle is freed from driving operations of the vehicle, and provide, in the detected time, the driver with information for promoting accomplishment of a work that is entered in advance, that is not related to the driving operations of the vehicle, and that needs to be executed by the driver. Thus, it is possible to promote the accomplishment of the work that needs to be executed by the driver, at an appropriate timing and without interfering with the driver's driving operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryota OKUBI, Takeshi INOSHITA, Ko KOGA, Daisuke FURUKAWA, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Toshiyuki HAGIYA
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Publication number: 20200160696Abstract: A driving support device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. When a vehicle is placed inside a rest facility and at least one of parameters indicative of respective states of traffic jams on roads ahead of and behind the rest facility satisfy a predetermined reference, the processor transmits, to a device related to the vehicle, information that proposes a departure from the rest facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke FURUKAWA, Takeshi INOSHITA, Ryota OKUBI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Ko KOGA, Toshiyuki HAGIYA
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Publication number: 20200105136Abstract: A parking lot guidance device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause a communication unit to transmit exit information to a vehicle with the highest priority among other vehicles that are transmission targets. The exit information includes information of a size of a parking section in which a host vehicle is parked, information of a position of the parking section in which the host vehicle is parked, and information of a start of exit of the host vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi INOSHITA, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Ko KOGA, Daisuke FURUKAWA, Ryota OKUBI, Toshiyuki HAGIYA
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Publication number: 20200098003Abstract: A display technique for displaying an advertisement content which takes account of a relation with respect to any personal experience and/or any action of a target person is provided. An information system comprises a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute: acquisition of specification information for specifying display information to be displayed on a signage apparatus, of a user as inputted by the aid of an input unit; and output of the display information to the signage apparatus at a predetermined timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
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Publication number: 20200079376Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a vehicle group search unit that acquires a most frequent vehicle speed of the vehicle and to search for one or more vehicle group, the most frequent vehicle speed being a vehicle speed that is most frequent, the vehicle group traveling at one of the most frequent vehicle speed and a speed close to the most frequent vehicle speed; a distance information generation unit that generates the vehicle group searched for by the vehicle group search unit and distance information on a distance between the vehicle group and an information-receiving vehicle that has sent the most frequent vehicle speed; and a merging assistance unit that sends the distance information generated by the distance information generation unit to a user terminal device and assists the vehicle in merging into one of the vehicle groups searched for by the vehicle group search unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Ryota OKUBI, Daisuke FURUKAWA, Ko KOGA, Takeshi INOSHITA, Toshiyuki HAGIYA
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Publication number: 20200072634Abstract: An output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of a user is allowed to timely output information desired by the user. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is an information processing apparatus to be used by a mobile user, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller which executes acquisition of a content designated by the user; specification of an output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of the user; and transmission of the acquired content to the specified output apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA