Patents by Inventor Shin Sakurada

Shin Sakurada 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).

  • Publication number: 20240127165
    Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus, the information processing method including determining, as a delivery center, a first vehicle being a battery electric vehicle under energy charging or a fuel cell electric vehicle under energy fueling, and commanding a second vehicle to pick up a package from the first vehicle and deliver the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuyuki INOUE, Jean-Sebastien BOIRE, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Ai MIYATA, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240118688
    Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with one or more vehicles delivering packages, the information processing method includes acquiring vehicle-related information including the position of each vehicle, the energy charge amount of each vehicle, the travel condition of each vehicle, a temperature, the weight of packages on each vehicle, delivery destination information on the packages on each vehicle, energy charging station information near a delivery route of each vehicle, and/or road congestion information, generating, from the vehicle-related information, plans for delivery routes and/or energy charge timings with the highest energy efficiency, and commanding the one or more vehicles to execute the plans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuyuki INOUE, Jean-Sebastien BOIRE, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Ai MIYATA, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11953906
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of a recipient of a package, acquire information indicating a location for placing the package in a vehicle, and present a depositor of the package with the information indicating the location for placing the package and the information indicating the attribute of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Shin Sakurada, Tomokazu Maya, Hiroyuki Bandai, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11952115
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948457
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948451
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11941965
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a warning to be issued to a person who is highly likely to be put in danger at a risky point. In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires information indicating a risky point, acquires a state of a person with a predetermined positional relationship to the risky point, and determines whether or not the state of the person is a state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, among a plurality of states of the person assumable at the risky point. Furthermore, in a case where the state of the person is determined to be the state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, the controller causes an output unit to output information indicating a warning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Takaharu Ueno, Shin Sakurada, Daiki Yokoyama, Genshi Kuno
  • Patent number: 11941549
    Abstract: The management device of an autonomous driving vehicle includes a congestion rate calculation unit and a waiting place setting unit. The congestion rate calculation unit is able to calculate the congestion rate of a parking lot adjoining each of a plurality of commercial facilities. In a case where the congestion rate of a neighbor parking lot, or a parking lot in the neighborhood of a boarding place contained in reservation information for an autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch, during a waiting time period before the scheduled boarding time, is less than a congestion threshold, the waiting place setting unit sets the neighbor parking lot as a waiting place for the autonomous driving vehicle to wait during the waiting time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11932202
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an entry/exit management device including a first processor including hardware, the first processor being configured to detect that a user of a vehicle enters or leaves a facility, and output a first signal indicating user's entering the facility and a second signal indicating user's leaving the facility, to a server; and the server comprising a second processor comprising hardware, the second processor being configured to output to the vehicle a third signal for deactivating a smart key function of the vehicle when acquiring the first signal and prohibit unlocking of a door of the vehicle performed by wireless communication, and output to the vehicle a fourth signal for setting the smart key function of the vehicle when acquiring the second signal and permit unlocking of the door of the vehicle performed by wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhisa Ohta, Naoyuki Takada, Satoru Sakuma, Yuki Tatsumoto, Tetsu Yajima
  • Publication number: 20240084382
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11927971
    Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11928751
    Abstract: A method that is executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information regarding a vehicle, acquiring second information regarding a first product selected by a user, deciding a procedure for loading the first product into the vehicle based on the first information and the second information, and performing notification of the procedure for loading the first product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Josuke Yamane, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240075952
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a relaxation facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire stress information regarding a worker working at a workplace, and command the vehicle to move to the workplace based on the acquired stress information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240067225
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a cafeteria facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire dispatch destination information including a designated location and a designated time period, and command the vehicle to be dispatched to the designated location in the designated time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Patent number: 11912308
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle allows passengers to transfer from a passenger vehicle, which is a relatively large vehicle, to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is provided with an autonomous travel control unit (steering control unit) configured to, when the passenger vehicle is stopped, cause the autonomous vehicle to pull up alongside the passenger vehicle such that an entrance (second entrance) of the autonomous vehicle is placed next to an entrance (first entrance) of the passenger vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11912276
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11904879
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20240054886
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240051580
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate via the communication interface with at least one mobile object that has a changing room. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to the mobile object to move to a specified location by a specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240053755
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate, using the communication interface, with a mobile object having a facility for executing one or more processes in a plurality of processes to be executed sequentially to manufacture a product. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to a first mobile object to travel to a meeting point with a second mobile object for executing a second process that follows a first process to be executed in the first mobile object, the instruction being for delivering the product being manufactured to the second mobile object at the meeting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII