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: 20220047919
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller. The controller obtains circumstances information defined as information relating to circumstances around the present location of a user. The controller determines a recommended exercise as a kind of exercise that is suitable for the circumstances around the present location of the user on the basis of the circumstances information obtained. Then, the controller sends suggestion information to a user's terminal used by the user. The suggestion information is information that suggests the user to do the recommended exercise at the present location of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shintaro Matsutani, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220048515
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed controls a road surface marking apparatus capable of forming a desired road surface marking by changing the pattern of light emission of a plurality of light emitters provided on the surface of a road. The information processing apparatus has a controller. The controller obtains emergency information relating to the occurrence of a disaster and determines an affected area that is affected by the disaster on the basis of the emergency information. The controller changes a marking formed by a road surface marking apparatus provided on the road surface in the affected area into a specific marking that indicates the type of the disaster, an area to which people should evacuate, or an evacuation route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220051540
    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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220048519
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Takumi Fukunaga, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Patent number: 11250353
    Abstract: A carsharing system includes circuitry configured to: receive, from a user, a usage request for requesting a reservation for use of a vehicle which is supplied for a vehicle rental service; permit the reservation for use of the vehicle when the reception unit receives the usage request and no reservation for use of the vehicle has been made at time of receiving the usage request; and give, when the reservation for use of the vehicle is determined, a permission for locking or unlocking by using electronic information to the user at a date and a time on which the vehicle is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Koichi Ando, Mutsumi Matsuura, Masato Endo, Koki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20220044572
    Abstract: A vehicle dispatch system includes a server and a plurality of vehicles. Each vehicle in the plurality of vehicles includes a vehicle communication interface configured to be able to transmit/receive information to/from the server, and a cabin used for a service to a user. The server includes a server communication interface and a server controller. The server communication interface is configured to be able to transmit/receive information to/from the plurality of vehicles. The server controller is configured to perform demand forecasting for a plurality of services, determine a mode of the cabin of the specific vehicle based on a result of the demand forecasting, and instruct the specific vehicle to perform a mode change to the determined mode via the server communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Shintaro Matsutani, Bryce H. Morisako, Joshua Babcock
  • Publication number: 20220045548
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to generate power supply permission information that is information permitting power to be supplied to a device electromagnetically connected to power supply equipment, and output the power supply permission information to the power supply equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220043801
    Abstract: The present disclosure is aimed at increasing security of a system that provides mediation in a procedure for updating personal information that is registered. An information processing device includes a storage unit configured to store personal information data including pieces of personal information that are collected on a per-user basis. Furthermore, the information processing device includes a controller configured to: update at least a piece of the personal information that is stored, based on a request acquired from a user, receive, from the user, selection of a service provider to which the personal information after update is to be transmitted, receive, from the user, selection of the personal information that is to be transmitted to the service provider that is selected, and transmit the personal information that is selected to the service provider that is selected, to update the personal information registered with the service provider that is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKADE, Ai MIYATA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Shin SAKURADA, Shuichi SAWADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20220044165
    Abstract: A carsharing system includes circuitry configured to: receive, from a user, a usage request for requesting a reservation for use of a vehicle which is supplied for a vehicle rental service; permit the reservation for use of the vehicle when the reception unit receives the usage request and no reservation for use of the vehicle has been made at time of receiving the usage request; and give, when the reservation for use of the vehicle is determined, a permission for locking or unlocking by using electronic information to the user at a date and a time on which the vehicle is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Koichi ANDO, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Masato ENDO, Koki FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11242033
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an object information acquiring unit, a receiver information acquiring unit, and an authentication information issuing unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires delivery object information of an object from a deliverer of the object. The object is stored in an interior space of a vehicle and of which delivery is desired. The receiver information acquiring unit acquires receiver information on a receiver of the object. The authentication information issuing unit issues authentication information for locking and unlocking a door of the vehicle based on the delivery object information and the receiver information and transmits the authentication information to a terminal of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Koichi Ando, Mutsumi Matsuura, Masato Endo, Koki Fujita, Ryuichi Suzuki, Yuki Ito, Hiroyasu Shiokawa, Yasumasa Kobayashi, Naoki Yamamuro, Makoto Akahane
  • Publication number: 20220032917
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user; and a controller configured to: detect a use state of a functional component of at least one vehicle; determine weather around the at least one vehicle, based on the use state detected; select at least one facility to be recommended to the user, according to the weather determined; and transmit facility information indicating the at least one facility selected. to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20220036485
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus; and a controller configured to: select either one of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility as a facility to be recommended to a user, according to an arrival time slot in which the user is to arrive at a destination; refer to, when selecting a food-serving facility, first profile data indicating preference of the user for food to select at least one of a plurality of food-serving facility candidates; refer to, when selecting an accommodation facility, second profile data indicating preference of the user for accommodation services to select at least one of a plurality of accommodation facility candidates; and transmit, regardless of which of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility has been selected, facility data indicating a selected candidate, to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada, Tim Wang
  • Patent number: 11237006
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to this disclosure is an information processing apparatus applied to a traffic mode where a plurality of users including a first user and a second user ride in an identical vehicle and travel, and the second user gets off the identical vehicle earlier than the first user does, including a controller configured to execute: acquiring destination points of the first user and the second user; and setting a combination between the first user and the second user allowed to ride in the identical vehicle so that the destination point of the second user does not belong to a destination area that is a predetermined area including the destination point of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yeonseo Kim, Shin Sakurada, Daisuke Tanabe, Ayana Takeshita, Hiroyuki Tokita, Koichi Asamoto
  • Publication number: 20220020287
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a sensor configured to sense a first posture that a user is taking; a storage configured to store posture data about a posture of a person; and a controller configured to create advice for the user regarding a negative influence on a body of the user, based on sensor data acquired from the sensor and the posture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220012679
    Abstract: A product management apparatus includes an information acquisition interface and a controller. The information acquisition interface is configured to acquire, from a terminal apparatus, information related to requests from a user. The controller is configured to apply a purchased tag to a product, based on a purchase request from the user that is acquired using the information acquisition interface, the purchased tag identifying that the product is a purchased product of the user, cause the product to which the purchased tag is applied to be unloaded from a predetermined storage space, based on a receipt request from the user that is acquired using the information acquisition interface; and remove the purchased tag, based on a return request from the user that is acquired using the information acquisition interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Hirotada Nakanishi, Atsushi Inoue, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220011152
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition interface configured to acquire a measurement result from one or more weight sensors configured to measure a weight of a user, and a controller configured to detect an increase in the weight of the user based on the measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Hirotada Nakanishi, Atsushi Inoue, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220012781
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information acquisition interface configured to acquire information related to a behavior of a user; and a controller configured to estimate a product required by the user based on the information related to the behavior of the user, generate information supporting a purchase of the estimated product, and cause an output interface to output the generated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Hirotada Nakanishi, Atsushi Inoue, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Genshi Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220008787
    Abstract: An evaluation device, comprises a controller configured to: obtain exercise data, the exercise data being data related to exercise performed by a user; generate incentive data based on the exercise data, the incentive data indicating incentives to be provided to the user; determine whether an exercise appropriate for the user is being performed, the determining being performed based on the exercise data; and when determining that an exercise appropriate for the user is not performed, adjust an amount of the incentives to be provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shintaro Matsutani, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220005054
    Abstract: A user terminal of a first user acquires a topic of a predetermined event occurring between the first user and a second user who is another user, detects a behavior, of the first user, on a web performed in relation to the topic, generates web behavior history information that is a history of the behavior, and transmits the web behavior history information of the first user. A server receives the web behavior history information of the first user, and transmits, to a user terminal of the second user, information indicating a degree of interest in the topic or the second user felt by the first user, the information being based on the web behavior history information of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220005365
    Abstract: There is provided a technology that can improve the convenience of users who are reading books. An information processing apparatus has a controller that determines a focus sentence in a subject book that a user is reading. The focus sentence is a sentence on which the user is focusing attention. The controller analyzes what the focus sentence describes and obtains related information relating to what the focus sentence describes. Moreover, the controller executes the processing for causing a user's terminal that the user is using to display the related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO