Patents by Inventor Satoshi Tanabe
Satoshi Tanabe 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: 20260018866Abstract: A wavelength beam combining device for combining laser beams having different peak wavelengths includes: a first optical component separating the laser beams into first polarization beams linearly polarized in a first polarization direction and second polarization beams linearly polarized in a second polarization direction orthogonal to the first polarization direction; a first polarization conversion element converting the second polarization beams into third polarization beams linearly polarized in the first polarization direction; first and second mirrors reflecting the first and third polarization beams, respectively; a first diffraction element receiving the first polarization beams and diffracting them to form a first wavelength-combined beam coaxially combined; a second diffraction element receiving the third polarization beams and diffracting them to form a second wavelength-combined beam in which the third polarization beams are coaxially combined; and a second optical component on which the first anType: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2025Publication date: January 15, 2026Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi TANABE, Norihiro DEJIMA
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Patent number: 12525021Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Automatic parking lot management system, automatic parking lot management method, and storage medium
Patent number: 12441492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano -
Publication number: 20250252230Abstract: Processing to select a production collaborator of a simulation is performed. In the processing to select a production collaborator, an aptitude level of a practical worker for a simulation task set in association with a real task constituting an operation performed in a line is calculated based on historical data of a simulation cooperation by the practical worker and historical data of a line design planning by the practical worker. In addition, a leading candidate of the production collaborator is specified based on the calculated aptitude level. Then, information on the identified leading candidate is transmitted to a computer of a producer of the simulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Takahiro SAKURAI, Satoshi TANABE, Kensuke MATSUMOTO, Yuki ICHIOKA
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Patent number: 12330685Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Patent number: 12315372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano, Satoshi Omi
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Patent number: 12260754Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Patent number: 11922523Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire renewable power generation information from a renewable energy power generation server; acquire at least one of hydrogen power generation information from a hydrogen power generation server and fuel cell information; acquire grid power generation information from a grid power generation server; acquire electric power information from each of a plurality of consumer facilities in a predetermined area, the electric power information being regarding an amount of electric power consumed by the consumer facility; and generate proposal information including information on a type of electric power supplied to a predetermined consumer facility based on at least one of the renewable power generation information, the hydrogen power generation information, and the fuel cell information, the grid power generation information, and a plurality of pieces of the electric power information, and output the proposal information to the predetermined conType: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Ehara, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Satoshi Tanabe, Nanae Takada, Naohiro Seo
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Patent number: 11904847Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Publication number: 20240010239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
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Publication number: 20230419828Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
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Patent number: 11810458Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Publication number: 20230326214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Publication number: 20230326341Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO, Satoshi OMI
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Publication number: 20230322209Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
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Publication number: 20230064215Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
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AUTOMATIC PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AUTOMATIC PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20230060036Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO -
Publication number: 20230055909Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya MATSUBAYASHI, Ryota TOMIZAWA, Satoshi TANABE, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE, Hiroki AWANO
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Patent number: 11532088Abstract: An arithmetic processing apparatus, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: estimate an optical flow between consecutive frames of a moving image, and generate a sound wave corresponding to a target moving image, based on an optical flow estimated for the target moving image, and a deep neural network that generates a sound wave corresponding to an input optical flow and that has performed learning, by associating with time, an optical flow estimated for a moving image with sound wave and a sound wave of the moving image with sound wave.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20220223889Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that: acquires movement information related to a movement of a moving body from the moving body including a fuel cell using hydrogen fuel as a power source of the moving body, a storage unit for storing hot water discharged from the fuel cell, and a tub for using the hot water discharged from the storage unit; acquires destination information related to a destination of the moving body from the moving body or a terminal of a user who uses the moving body; and acquires set values of a water amount and a water temperature of the hot water stored in the storage unit from the moving body, generates schedule information related to traveling of the moving body based on the movement information, the destination information, and the set values, and outputs the schedule information to the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO