Patents by Inventor Shogo YASUYAMA

Shogo YASUYAMA 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: 20240419178
    Abstract: A remote control disabling device includes: a determination unit that determines part of functions that are targets to be switched between an enabled state and a disabled state among a plurality of functions of a moving object to be executed by remote control; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal for causing the moving object to switch between the enabled state and the disabled state of the part of the functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo YASUYAMA, Kento IWAHORI, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yasuhiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240410698
    Abstract: A remote control system for automatically moving a moving object by remote control, comprising a plurality of functional units that transmit and receive information to and from each other, wherein at least a part of the plurality of functional units detects the presence or absence of an abnormality in another functional unit by using information received from another functional unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro SAWANO, Kento Iwahori, Takeshi Kanou, Yasuyoshi Hatano, Keigo Ikeda, Shogo Yasuyama, Jyunya Katou
  • Publication number: 20240393120
    Abstract: A moving availability determination device comprises a route acquisition unit that acquires a candidate movement route, an information acquisition unit that acquires determination basis information including at least one of the following information: moving object feature information indicating at least one of a specification related to the movement of a moving object and a dimension of the moving object; speed condition information indicating a condition of the moving speed of the moving object in a target moving route; and structure information indicating at least one of a position and a size of a structure in a region including the target movement route, and a determination unit that executes a determination of whether the candidate movement route generated by the route acquisition unit is the movable route, using the determination basis information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KANOU, Takuro SAWANO, Shogo YASUYAMA, Kento IWAHORI, Keigo IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240377832
    Abstract: A moving object manufactured in a factory comprises: a driving controller that implements driving control over the moving object by unmanned driving during a course of manufacture of the moving object in the factory; a process completion detector that detects completion of a process by at least one step included in the course of manufacture; and a control content change unit that changes a content in control over the moving object when the completion of the process is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo IKEDA, Shogo Yasuyama, Noritsugu Iwazaki, Takeshi Kanou, Daiki Yokoyama, Go Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240361774
    Abstract: A remote control system includes: a moving object including command accepting and first communication units, the command accepting unit being switchable between valid and invalid states, the valid state accepts a remote control command supplied from outside the moving object, the invalid state rejects the remote control command, the first communication unit transmits at least one information of first and second information, the first information indicating a sign that the operating state will switch to the valid state, the second information indicating that the operating state has switched to the valid state; and a controller including second communication and judging units, the second communication unit receives the at least one information, the judging unit permits switching of the operating state to the valid state when the judging unit judges that the second communication unit has received the at least one information and a predetermined permission condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kento IWAHORI, Shogo YASUYAMA, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240345589
    Abstract: A moving object management device manages a plurality of moving objects, each moving object having a remote control function to move by remote control. The moving object management device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire vulnerability information regarding vulnerability of the remote control function; and a disablement instruction unit configured to instruct a moving object having the vulnerability extracted by using the vulnerability information to disable the remote control function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo YASUYAMA, Keigo IKEDA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yasuhiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240329649
    Abstract: A system includes: a remote control unit that causes a moving object to move by remote control, the moving object being able to move by the remote control in a manufacturing process in a factory that manufactures the moving object, and in a conveyance process outside the factory, the conveyance process shipping the moving object after manufacturing from the factory and conveying the moving object to a destination, the moving object including a communication unit and a driving control unit, the communication unit having a communication function, the driving control unit executing driving control of the moving object; a disabling execution unit that executes disabling processing for disabling the remote control; and a disabling instruction unit determining whether or not to execute the disabling processing using transit point information related to the remote control at at least one transit point at which the moving object transits in the conveyance process, the disabling instruction unit instructing the disabl
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo YASUYAMA, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240319740
    Abstract: A system comprises: a remote controller that causes a vehicle to run by remote control, the vehicle being capable of running along a track in a factory during a course of manufacture, the vehicle including a vehicle communication unit and a driving controller, the vehicle communication unit having a communication function, the driving controller implementing driving control over the vehicle; a track information acquisition unit that acquires track information that is information about an environment of a track on which the vehicle is configured to run by the remote control; and a running method determination unit that determines a running method using the acquired track information, the running method including at least one of a possibility or impossibility of running of the vehicle and a running route along which the vehicle is to run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo YASUYAMA, Takeshi KANOU, Kento IWAHORI, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240317340
    Abstract: A control system for controlling transport of a vehicle in any of steps from production to shipment of the vehicle includes a state identification unit that identifies a vehicle state that is a state of the vehicle, and a control notification unit that determines a control content of the vehicle by using the identified vehicle state and notifies the vehicle of the control content. The control notification unit determines to control at least either one of a transport route of the vehicle and a timing of starting the transport as the control content such that a magnitude of a difference between the vehicle state and a preset target state is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo YASUYAMA, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240112363
    Abstract: A position estimation system, a position estimation method, and a program that can estimate a position of a moving body without installing an installation object on the moving body are provided. A position estimation system includes a detection unit configured to generate a first mask image, a mask area masking a moving body in an image photographed being added to the first mask image, a perspective transformation unit configured to perform perspective transformation on the first mask image, and a position calculation unit configured to correct a coordinate point of a first circumscribed rectangle set for a mask area in the first mask image using a second coordinate point of the mask area in the second mask image, which is obtained by performing perspective transformation on the first mask, to calculate a third coordinate point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro KEMMOTSU, Takuro SAWANO, Yasuyoshi HATANO, Shogo YASUYAMA, Kento IWAHORI, Keigo IKEDA