Patents by Inventor Shinichi Adachi

Shinichi Adachi 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).

  • Patent number: 11623648
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicatively connected to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, to acquire driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and to detect occurrence of a traffic accident associated with the vehicle. When a notification of occurrence of a traffic accident is received from the vehicle, the server is configured to calculate a driving skill level of the driver based on the driving information, to store provision information in which the position information of a point at which the traffic accident has occurred is correlated with the driving skill level and the number of times of occurrence of a traffic accident at the point, and to provide the provision information to an insurance company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11521393
    Abstract: A vehicle is configured to image, with an outside camera, an identification mark associated with a content provided by a service provider, output the content associated with the imaged identification mark to an occupant in a cabin of the vehicle, acquire operation information on the occupant relating to the output content, and acquire information regarding the occupant when the occupant performs operation relating to the content in the vehicle cabin. An information processing apparatus is configured to, when determining that the output content is not selected by the occupant based on the operation information on the occupant, determine whether or not to update the content that is not selected, based on the information regarding the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11491993
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing device configured to transmit and receive information to and from the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire information on an occupant in a cabin of the vehicle, and operate to affect a perception of the occupant. The information processing device is configured to store a cause of an accident caused by a passenger of the vehicle and control information for operating the operating unit to eliminate the cause of the accident, and transmit the control information to the operating unit of the vehicle when determination is made that the cause of the accident occurs based on the information on the occupant. The vehicle is configured to operate to eliminate the cause of the accident when the control information is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11479259
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicatively connected to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, to acquire driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and to detect occurrence of a traffic accident associated with the vehicle. When a notification of occurrence of a traffic accident is received from the vehicle, the server is configured to calculate a driving skill level of the driver based on the driving information, to store provision information in which the position information of a point at which the traffic accident has occurred is correlated with the driving skill level and the number of times of occurrence of a traffic accident at the point, and to provide the provision information to an insurance company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20220335087
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires data. The circuitry identifies a type of the data based on text information of the data, the text information being one of text information included in the data and text information converted from the data. The circuitry executes one or more processes on the data according to the identified type to obtain one or more pieces of processed data. The circuitry performs control to output the one or more pieces of processed data, as one or more processing results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Adachi, Kei Kawashima, Taku Nagumo
  • Patent number: 11410251
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing device that acquires information acquired by the vehicle from the vehicle. The vehicle acquires information on an occupant in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, and acquires position information of the vehicle. When it is determined based on the information on the occupant that the vehicle has traveled to the vicinity of a hidden tourist attraction, the information processing device generates tourist attraction information including the position information of the vehicle at a point at which the determination has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11341751
    Abstract: A vehicle captures an identification mark with an external camera, the identification mark being associated with content provided by a service provider; acquires the content associated with the captured identification mark; outputs the acquired content to the occupant in a cabin of the vehicle; acquires payment information based on the output content; and acquires information on the occupant in the cabin. A server identifies the occupant based on the information on the occupant, acquired by the vehicle; and transmits information on payment processing including the payment information, acquired from the vehicle, to the information processing terminal held by the identified occupant. The information processing terminal displays the information on the payment processing acquired from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20220048522
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicatively connected to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, to acquire driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and to detect occurrence of a traffic accident associated with the vehicle. When a notification of occurrence of a traffic accident is received from the vehicle, the server is configured to calculate a driving skill level of the driver based on the driving information, to store provision information in which the position information of a point at which the traffic accident has occurred is correlated with the driving skill level and the number of times of occurrence of a traffic accident at the point, and to provide the provision information to an insurance company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, TAE SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Patent number: 11226209
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processor that acquires information acquired by the vehicle from the vehicle. The vehicle acquires location information of the vehicle, acquires driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and provides route guidance on the basis of route guidance information that is generated in the information processor. The information processor stores traffic accident information, in which driving skill of a driver involved in a traffic accident occurred in the past and the number of the traffic accident at a point where the traffic accident has occurred are associated with location information of the point where the traffic accident has occurred, calculates the driving skill of the driver on the basis of the driving information, and generates the route guidance information on the basis of the calculated driving skill and the traffic accident information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana Hamagami, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11079246
    Abstract: A management system according to the present disclosure is a management system that manages a travel plan of a vehicle that is capable of traveling on a road and a railway track, and includes controller that creates the travel plan of the vehicle. In a case where there is a route candidate track that is a railway track that is possibly used as a travel route of the vehicle, the controller acquires a railway operation schedule for the route candidate track, and determines whether the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, based on the operation schedule. In the case where the route candidate track can be used as the travel route of the vehicle, the controller creates a travel plan according to which the vehicle travels along the travel route including the route candidate track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Patent number: 10955844
    Abstract: A server apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles each of which carries a vibration control apparatus for attenuating vibration by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration approaches a target acceleration is disclosed. The server apparatus acquires traveling data including a magnitude of the predetermined acceleration generated in each of the vehicles and the target acceleration set for the vehicle every time when each of the vehicles travels on each of sections of a previously divided road, and accumulates the acquired traveling data while being correlated with section identification information. Then, the server apparatus sets the target acceleration which is adequate for each of the vehicles to travel on a scheduled traveling section on the basis of the accumulated traveling data, and transmits the set target acceleration to the vehicle scheduled to travel on the scheduled traveling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamuro, Shinichi Adachi, Ryo Hattori, Taichi Amakasu, Keigo Hiruma
  • Publication number: 20200272830
    Abstract: A vehicle captures an identification mark with an external camera, the identification mark being associated with content provided by a service provider; acquires the content associated with the captured identification mark; outputs the acquired content to the occupant in a cabin of the vehicle; acquires payment information based on the output content; and acquires information on the occupant in the cabin. A server identifies the occupant based on the information on the occupant, acquired by the vehicle; and transmits information on payment processing including the payment information, acquired from the vehicle, to the information processing terminal held by the identified occupant. The information processing terminal displays the information on the payment processing acquired from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200273121
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing device that acquires information acquired by the vehicle from the vehicle. The vehicle acquires information on an occupant in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, and acquires position information of the vehicle. When it is determined based on the information on the occupant that the vehicle has traveled to the vicinity of a hidden tourist attraction, the information processing device generates tourist attraction information including the position information of the vehicle at a point at which the determination has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200272829
    Abstract: A vehicle is configured to image, with an outside camera, an identification mark associated with a content provided by a service provider, output the content associated with the imaged identification mark to an occupant in a cabin of the vehicle, acquire operation information on the occupant relating to the output content, and acquire information regarding the occupant when the occupant performs operation relating to the content in the vehicle cabin. An information processing apparatus is configured to, when determining that the output content is not selected by the occupant based on the operation information on the occupant, determine whether or not to update the content that is not selected, based on the information regarding the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200269847
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information processing device includes: a control unit; a communication unit that communicates with a different vehicle; and a travel environment information acquisition unit that acquires information about a travel environment of a vehicle. When the vehicle reaches a location at which a traffic accident occurs, the control unit transmits the information about the travel environment at the location, which is acquired by the travel environment information acquisition unit, to a following vehicle using the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200211079
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted information processing device includes a controller, an imaging unit including an out-of-vehicle camera configured to image the outside of a vehicle, and an output unit configured to output information acquired by the imaging unit to an occupant in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle. The imaging unit images an identification mark that is associated with content updated at any time on a service provider side and that changes for each content item. The controller acquires the content associated with the imaged identification mark and outputs the acquired content to the occupant in the vehicle cabin by means of the output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200175474
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server communicatively connected with the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire a traveling state of the vehicle, acquire information on an occupant of the vehicle, and detect an occurrence of a traffic accident related to the vehicle. The server is configured to store provision information including a damage state of the vehicle due to the traffic accident analyzed based on the traveling state of the vehicle and an injury state of the occupant due to the traffic accident analyzed based on the information on the occupant when the server receives a notification of the occurrence of the traffic accident from the vehicle, and provides the provision information to an insurance company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200172111
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing device configured to transmit and receive information to and from the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire information on an occupant in a cabin of the vehicle, and operate to affect a perception of the occupant. The information processing device is configured to store a cause of an accident caused by a passenger of the vehicle and control information for operating the operating unit to eliminate the cause of the accident, and transmit the control information to the operating unit of the vehicle when determination is made that the cause of the accident occurs based on the information on the occupant. The vehicle is configured to operate to eliminate the cause of the accident when the control information is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200173801
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processor that acquires information acquired by the vehicle from the vehicle. The vehicle acquires location information of the vehicle, acquires driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and provides route guidance on the basis of route guidance information that is generated in the information processor. The information processor stores traffic accident information, in which driving skill of a driver involved in a traffic accident occurred in the past and the number of the traffic accident at a point where the traffic accident has occurred are associated with location information of the point where the traffic accident has occurred, calculates the driving skill of the driver on the basis of the driving information, and generates the route guidance information on the basis of the calculated driving skill and the traffic accident information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yosuke NAKAYAMA, Akitoshi JIKUMARU, Tae SUGIMURA, Takao HISHIKAWA, Shinichi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200172114
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and a server that is communicatively connected to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to acquire position information of the vehicle, to acquire driving information of a driver of the vehicle, and to detect occurrence of a traffic accident associated with the vehicle. When a notification of occurrence of a traffic accident is received from the vehicle, the server is configured to calculate a driving skill level of the driver based on the driving information, to store provision information in which the position information of a point at which the traffic accident has occurred is correlated with the driving skill level and the number of times of occurrence of a traffic accident at the point, and to provide the provision information to an insurance company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana HAMAGAMI, Takuya Maekawa, Yosuke Nakayama, Akitoshi Jikumaru, Tae Sugimura, Takao Hishikawa, Shinichi Adachi