Patents by Inventor Shuichi Sawada

Shuichi Sawada 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: 20220105854
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire height data indicating a height at which a vehicle carrying a package is to send the package, and perform, according to the acquired height data, control to adjust a height at which a locker is to receive the package from the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto MATSUSHITA, Tomo SASAKI, Yui NAKAMURA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Shuichi SAWADA, Tatsuya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220106111
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring information on whether a trash bag placed in a trash can contains trash; and placing an order of a product related to the trash or the trash bag based on the number of times a state in which there is the trash in the trash bag is changed to a state in which there is no trash in the trash bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Takayuki HATORI, Shuichi SAWADA, Daiki KUBO, Tomoki ISHIKAWA, Naoya OKA
  • Publication number: 20220103396
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute operations including: identifying a user; acquiring attribute information for the user, the attribute information being stored in association with the user; estimating, from the attribute information, a power consumption amount for an environment preferred by the user; determining whether the power consumption amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; upon determining that the power consumption amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, guiding the user to a first space; and upon determining that the power consumption amount is less than the predetermined value, guiding the user to a second space, wherein a power consumption amount for the first space is greater than a power consumption amount for the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 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: 20220101364
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to identify a section on which a user can travel by either passenger carrying apparatus or walking, as a rewarding section, and determine a reward to be provided to the user, upon determining that the user has traveled on the rewarding section by walking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 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: 20220101458
    Abstract: An information processing device including a controller configured to execute detecting an alcohol contained in exhaled breath of a user who has returned home by using an alcohol sensor, and estimating consumption of an alcoholic beverage by the user after returning home based on a result of the detection of the alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Takayuki HATORI, Shuichi SAWADA, Daiki KUBO, Tomoki ISHIKAWA, Naoya OKA
  • Publication number: 20220076572
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus controls a road surface marking apparatus configured to form any road surface marking by changing light emission patterns of a plurality of light emitters provided on a road surface. In the information processing apparatus, a control unit detects, when switching from a second traffic lane through which a pedestrian is allowed to pass to a first traffic lane through which a pedestrian is prohibited from passing is executed, a user who is a pedestrian remaining in the first traffic lane after the switching. Then, the control unit causes the road surface marking apparatus to form an urging marking used for urging the user to withdraw from the first traffic lane after the switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220058721
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute detection that a first shopper has performed a specific behavior for a first product based on information acquired by a sensor, and determination of a reason why the first shopper has performed the specific behavior for the first product based on information related to the first product and at least one of information related to a second product that is a comparison target of the first product and information related to the first shopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220057760
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires sunshine state information that specifies a sunshine state of at least one predetermined spot and repeated behavior information for a user that is associated with the at least one predetermined spot. The controller generates behavior proposal information related to performance of a repeated behavior of the user, based on the sunshine state information and on the repeated behavior information for the user, and outputs the behavior proposal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220058710
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises a controller configured to: obtain sensing data acquired by sensing a user; perform an estimation of occurrence of a necessary article or unnecessary article for the user, based on the sensing data; and perform predetermined processing related to either selling and buying or transfer and acquisition of the necessary article or unnecessary article, based on a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai MIYATA, Mitsuhiro MIURA, Yusuke NAKADE, Shin SAKURADA, Shuichi SAWADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20220051168
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprises a controller configured to execute: obtaining scheduled behavior information that is information about a scheduled behavior of a user; obtaining user behavior information that is information about a behavior performed by the user; calculating a deviation degree between the scheduled behavior and the behavior performed by the user, based on the user behavior information and the scheduled behavior information; and performing a predetermined process when the deviation degree exceeds a first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shintaro Matsutani, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220048394
    Abstract: A freight transportation system includes a first freight transportation apparatus configured to travel in a first section, a second freight transportation apparatus configured to travel in a second section, a power reception apparatus configured to receive regenerative power from the first freight transportation apparatus that is configured to travel in the first section, a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit the regenerative power to the second freight transportation apparatus that is configured to travel in the second section, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus is configured to perform control so that the second freight transportation apparatus starts traveling from a start point of the second section at a timing when the first freight transportation apparatus starts traveling from a start point of the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 20220005336
    Abstract: An information processing system disclosed includes a controller. When the controller detects that a first user and a second user have been separated to become lost to each other in a specific area, it determines the location of the first user using data that links the first user and the second user and images captured by a plurality of cameras provided in the specific area. Then, the controller executes the processing of providing an entertainment to the first user at the determined location of the first user and providing information about the determined location of the first user to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO