Patents by Inventor Shoji Sakamoto

Shoji Sakamoto 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: 11705003
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating a loudness of sound emitted by a second vehicle parked within a predetermined range from a first vehicle or a vehicle height of the second vehicle, and in a case in which the controller determines that the loudness or the vehicle height exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the controller provides a predetermined notification to the first vehicle via a communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Yurika Tanaka, Shoji Sakamoto, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kotaro Okabe, Hirotada Nakanishi, Naoya Oka, Daiki Otani
  • Publication number: 20220326035
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to select at least one store as a recommended store from among a plurality of stores located in a vicinity of a stopped vehicle based on a road configuration in the vicinity of the vehicle, and notify the vehicle of information regarding the selected recommended store via a communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kotaro OKABE, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Naoya OKA, Daiki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20220309435
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, upon acquiring movement information on a vehicle parked in a parking lot, determine whether there is order information for a product or service ordered by a user of the vehicle, and in a case in which there is order information for the product or service, notify, via a communication interface, a provider of the product or service of cancellation information for the product or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kotaro OKABE, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Naoya OKA, Daiki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20220301434
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating a loudness of sound emitted by a second vehicle parked within a predetermined range from a first vehicle or a vehicle height of the second vehicle, and in a case in which the controller determines that the loudness or the vehicle height exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the controller provides a predetermined notification to the first vehicle via a communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kotaro OKABE, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Naoya OKA, Daiki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20220215309
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: detect whether there is a standby user waiting in or in the vicinity of a parked vehicle based on parked vehicle information related to the parked vehicle; and output, to a terminal apparatus, referral information including information related to work to which the standby user is to be referred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kotaro OKABE, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Naoya OKA, Daiki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20220207549
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: based on parked vehicle information related to a parked vehicle parked in a parking lot, detect whether there is a standby user waiting in or in the vicinity of the parked vehicle; and output, to a terminal apparatus, service information to be notified to the standby user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kotaro OKABE, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Naoya OKA, Daiki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20220129971
    Abstract: A clothing indication system includes a first acquisition interface, a plurality of indicators, and an information processing apparatus. The first acquisition interface is configured to acquire body size information indicating a body size of a user. The plurality of indicators is provided in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of clothing items displayed in a shop and is configured to indicate some clothing items selected from among the plurality of clothing items in a manner such that the selected clothing items are distinguishable from other clothing items. The information processing apparatus is configured to select the clothing items to be indicated by the plurality of indicators based on the body size information for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuko MIZUNO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Katsuhiro OHARA
  • Publication number: 20220019230
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle configured to move in a shop includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire recipe information for a cooking menu selected by a user, identify a display location of at least one ingredient necessary for completing the cooking menu based on the acquired recipe information, generate route information on a route to the identified display location, and provide the generated route information to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuko MIZUNO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Katsuhiro OHARA
  • Publication number: 20220020275
    Abstract: A vehicle dispatch system includes a plurality of vehicles and an information processing apparatus. The plurality of vehicles is configured to drive autonomously in accordance with a driving plan. The information processing apparatus is configured to acquire a product collection request including user identification information and shop identification information to generate the driving plan based on the user identification information and the shop identification information, the user identification information identifying a user, the shop identification information identifying at least one shop at which the user has purchased a product, and the driving plan specifying a driving route passing through the at least one shop at which the user has purchased the product. Upon receiving a vehicle dispatch start request, the information processing apparatus establishes the driving plan and transmits the driving plan to a selected vehicle that is selected from the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuko MIZUNO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Katsuhiro OHARA
  • Publication number: 20190087487
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a specification unit. The acquisition unit acquires itinerary information which includes three or more places designated by a user and in which each of the three or more places is associated with plural keywords indicating characteristics of the place. The specification unit specifies, from among the plurality of keywords associated with a specific place specified from among the three or more places included in the itinerary information acquired by the acquisition unit, a keyword having a highest number of appearances in keywords associated with remaining places of the three or more places.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Shoji SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9727563
    Abstract: An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Shi, Kiwame Tokai, Tsutomu Abe, Hiroyuki Miyake, Tetsuo Iyoda, Shoji Sakamoto, Jun Shingu
  • Patent number: 9641719
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer readable medium. An imaging unit captures an image. A search request unit requests a search by using identification information for identifying a person described in the image or a medium having the image printed thereon. A reception unit receives image feature values corresponding to the identification information, as a result of the search. An acquisition unit acquires information for accessing a content or content information when the received image feature values and image feature values extracted from the captured image correspond to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Oneda, Shoji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20160127597
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer readable medium. An imaging unit captures an image. A search request unit requests a search by using identification information for identifying a person described in the image or a medium having the image printed thereon. A reception unit receives image feature values corresponding to the identification information, as a result of the search. An acquisition unit acquires information for accessing a content or content information when the received image feature values and image feature values extracted from the captured image correspond to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Yuichi ONEDA, Shoji SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8525890
    Abstract: Provided is a photographing apparatus that includes a photographing section that photographs a subject, and a controller that controls a photographing range of the photographing section based on a range specification image that is projected onto the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8472071
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires encoded information at a position specified on a medium, the medium having the encoded information and an image printed thereon, the encoded information including identification information of the medium, first coordinate information identifying in a first coordinate system a position where the encoded information is printed, and alignment determination information determining an alignment of the encoded information, and the image, printed on the medium, at a position predetermined by second coordinate information in a second coordinate system, an identifying unit that identifies the image corresponding to the encoded information by checking the first coordinate information included in the encoded information acquired by the acquisition unit against the second coordinate information of the images printed on the medium, and a determining unit that determines whether the first coordinate system matches the second coordinate system in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8446792
    Abstract: A temperature sensing circuit activates a sensing signal when sensing that a temperature inside a semiconductor integrated circuit is lower than a predetermined temperature. A heat generation control circuit activates a heat generation control signal when the sensing signal is activated. When the heat generation control signal is activated, a current is generated inside a memory circuit to raise the temperature inside the semiconductor integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukushima, Shoji Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Sadakata, Kiyoto Ohta
  • Patent number: 8346786
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acceptance section, a first processing section, a conversion section and a second processing section. The acceptance section accepts first storage location information that is indicative of where a first electronic file in a first storage unit is stored. The first processing section processes the first electronic file in accordance with a first processing content. The conversion section converts the first storage location information to second storage location information that is indicative of where a second electronic file in a second storage unit is stored. The second electronic file has an identical content as that of the first electronic file. The second processing section processes the second electronic file in accordance with a second processing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20120324330
    Abstract: An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng SHI, Kiwame TOKAI, Tsutomu ABE, Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Tetsuo IYODA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Jun SHINGU
  • Publication number: 20120268363
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an imaged image acquiring unit, an identifying unit, an acquiring unit, and a display control unit. The imaged image acquiring unit acquires an imaged image. The identifying unit identifies an object imaged in the imaged image. The acquiring unit acquires image information on the object stored in association with the object identified by the identifying unit. The display control unit displays at least part of an image area of an object image based on the image information on the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya KIMURA, Kengo SHINOZAKI, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Yasuyuki SAGUCHI, Hideki BABA
  • Publication number: 20120243006
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires encoded information at a position specified on a medium, the medium having the encoded information and an image printed thereon, the encoded information including identification information of the medium, first coordinate information identifying in a first coordinate system a position where the encoded information is printed, and alignment determination information determining an alignment of the encoded information, and the image, printed on the medium, at a position predetermined by second coordinate information in a second coordinate system, an identifying unit that identifies the image corresponding to the encoded information by checking the first coordinate information included in the encoded information acquired by the acquisition unit against the second coordinate information of the images printed on the medium, and a determining unit that determines whether the first coordinate system matches the second coordinate system in
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoji SAKAMOTO