Patents by Inventor Sokfan YEE
Sokfan YEE 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).
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Patent number: 11972391Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to further improve convenience of customers and the like accompanying purchase of merchandise. An autonomous traveling unit is provided with: a driving portion including an autonomous traveling ability, the driving portion being configured to be movable together with a storing portion configured to store merchandise; and a controlling portion configured to execute: acquiring settlement completion information about the merchandise stored in the storing portion, the merchandise being merchandise in a store; and controlling the driving portion to cause the merchandise storing portion to move to a first point outside the store after acquiring the settlement completion information.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Matsunami, Atsuko Yamanaka, Kunihiro Tsunekawa, Sokfan Yee, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Nonoyama, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Hikaru Satou
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Publication number: 20240068827Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240070793Abstract: An order reception system according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform receiving a reservation from a user to provide a dish to a dish providing place, receiving the reservation to provide a dish, calculating a lead time required for providing the dish and an arrival time at which the user arrives at the dish providing place, and instructing the dish providing place to start preparing to provide the dish based on the arrival time and the lead time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240068821Abstract: The drive route generation device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute a process of acquiring a designated point, a process of acquiring a designation condition for a drive route to be generated, a process of selecting one or a plurality of specific spots from a plurality of spots based on the position information and the designation condition for the plurality of spots, and a process of generating, as a drive route, a circulation route that comes back to a designated point via one or a plurality of specific spots using the designated point as a departure point.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240054411Abstract: An itinerary matching system according to the present disclosure includes a process of receiving registration of an itinerary, a process of extracting two registered itineraries from among a plurality of registered itineraries that have been registered and calculating a degree of matching between the two registered itineraries that have been extracted, a process of generating, upon receiving that the degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a merged itinerary in which the two registered itineraries are merged, and a process of setting, upon receiving acceptance from a participant of each of the two registered itineraries, the participant of each of the two registered itineraries as a participant of the merged itinerary.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240054442Abstract: A luggage delivery management system manages a service of delivering luggage deposited by a user to a destination specified by the user. The luggage delivery management system acquires payment amount information indicating an amount equivalent to a payment amount paid by the user for the service. When multiple pieces of luggage of a plurality of the users are delivered by one vehicle, the luggage delivery management system determines whether to set priority of the multiple pieces of luggage. The luggage delivery management system sets the priority of the luggage of the user who pays more to be higher based on the payment amount information when the priority is set. Then, the luggage delivery management system sets a luggage delivery route of the vehicle such that the multiple pieces of luggage are delivered to the destinations in accordance with the priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240027200Abstract: A vehicle management system includes one or more storage devices that store entrance and exit information indicating a correspondence relationship between a location of an entrance and a location of an exit for each area, and one or more processors. The processors determine whether an alighting position at which a user of the vehicle gets off the vehicle is the location of the entrance, based on the entrance and exit information, and set a destination of the vehicle so that the vehicle moves to the location of the exit corresponding to the entrance, when the alighting position of the user is the location of the entrance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240028649Abstract: An information provision system proposes an action item including at least one of a destination and a vehicle to a user. A database indicates a correspondence between a category of clothing and the action item that is recommended. The information provision system acquires an image showing user's clothing that is clothing of the user, and recognizes the category of the user's clothing based on the image. The information provision system further refers to the database to select the action item recommended for the category of the user's clothing as a recommended action item. The information provision system then proposes the recommended action item to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240019254Abstract: The spot proposal system includes one or more storage devices that store a database indicating a spot weather compatibility with weather tor each spot, and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors acquire weather information for each candidate spot, acquire spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot with reference to the database, select a target spot from among the candidate spots based on the spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot, and propose a target spot to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230196213Abstract: The seat management device includes a receiving unit for receiving a request regarding the characteristics of the seats of the mobile body in which the passengers can ride on each other, and a seat assigning unit for assigning a seat to the passengers for each region in the room of the mobile body on the basis of the request, to assign the passengers in which the request is common to the same region. The request is transmitted from a passenger terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230165533Abstract: A health management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a weight of an occupant detected by a detector provided in a seat of a vehicle that transports the occupant or a value detectable using the weight as a characteristic value associated with a physical body of the occupant; and a display information generating unit configured to generate display information which is displayed on a display device which is visible to an occupant when the occupant sits on the seat based on the characteristic value, the display information varying according to a difference between the characteristic value detected at the timing at which the occupant sits on the seat and the characteristic value of the occupant detected in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230166723Abstract: A physical function inspection device includes a target person selection unit that selects a target person for physical function inspection from passengers of a vehicle, a behavior detection unit that detects the behavior of the target person when the vehicle is traveling, and an evaluation unit that evaluates the physical function of the target person based on the behavior of the target person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230141894Abstract: A control unit of a server includes: a delivery request receiving unit configured to receive a delivery request for a parcel from a terminal of a delivery requester that requests a delivery of the parcel; a movable body selection unit configured to select a movable body that delivers the parcel, based on an address of a receiver of the parcel and operation information about a plurality of movable bodies that is periodically operated for each route, the address of the receiver being included in the delivery request; and a carry-in instruction sending unit configured to send a carry-in instruction to the terminal, the carry-in instruction being an instruction to carry the parcel in the selected movable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230138577Abstract: A device for notification to a moving body passenger includes an information processing device, a moving-body-mounted output device configured to output the notification content, and a communication device configured to transmit the notification content to a device carried by the passenger. The information processing device includes a storage device in which travel information, passenger information and information about a notification content list, and a processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromitsu KOBAYASHI, Takashi TOKUYAMA, Sokfan YEE
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Publication number: 20230134362Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an evaluation apparatus which evaluates autonomous driving performed by the autonomous driving vehicle. The present disclosure provides a technique which enables carrying out a questionnaire composed of one or more appropriate questions while reducing the number of the questions. The questionnaire apparatus includes a question management unit configured to manage one or more questions prepared for a passenger of an autonomous driving vehicle to evaluate autonomous driving, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire driving environment information and driving state information related to the autonomous driving, and a question determination unit configured to determine one or more request questions for requesting an answer from the passenger from among one or more managed questions based on at least one of the driving environment information and the driving state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sokfan Yee, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Takashi Tokuyama
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Publication number: 20220318837Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives authentication information for authenticating a passenger in a vehicle, an authentication unit that authenticates a passenger based on the authentication information, an assessment unit that assesses whether the authenticated passenger is standing up, a measuring unit that measures a period of time during which it is assessed that the authenticated passenger is standing up as a period of time during which the passenger is actually standing up, a calculation unit that calculates points or digital currency used in a reward program such that the authenticated passenger who stands up for a longer period of time gets more points or a higher amount of digital currency, and a transmission unit that transmits the calculated points or digital currency to a storage unit. The storage unit is configured to store the points or the digital currency in association with the passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Kensaku Shibata, Ryo Murakami, Shinnosuke Shimokawa, Junichi Mori, Sokfan Yee, Yuta Maniwa
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Publication number: 20220194170Abstract: A vehicle ventilation device includes: a calculation unit that calculates at least one of an occupant density and a mask wearing rate in a vehicle based on a detection result of a sensor; and a ventilation control unit that ventilates an inside of the vehicle in accordance with at least one of the occupant density and the mask wearing rate calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sokfan Yee
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Publication number: 20210339762Abstract: An information processing method for automated driving includes: a request determining step of receiving a vehicle control request from an autonomous driving kit and determining whether the vehicle control request is a first request of a trajectory type or a second request of a combined type of an acceleration and a steering amount; a first request transmitting step of transmitting a control signal corresponding to the first request to a control unit when it is determined that the vehicle control request is the first request; and a second request transmitting step of transmitting a control signal corresponding to the second request to the control unit when it is determined that the vehicle control request is the second request.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventor: Sokfan YEE
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Publication number: 20210295635Abstract: The present disclosure appropriately encourages provision of a service according to a location or provision of a location according to a service. A controller of a server apparatus that is an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires, from an apparatus of a location provider, attribute information of a location that the location provider is able to provide. The controller acquires, from an apparatus of a service provider, attribute information of a service that the service provider is able to provide. The controller performs, at least one of transmission, to the apparatus of the location provider, of a notification encouraging rental of the location to the service provider and transmission, to the apparatus of the service provider, of a notification encouraging use of the location when the attribute information of the location and the attribute information of the service satisfy a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya MATSUNAMI, Atsuko YAMANAKA, Kunihiro TSUNEKAWA, Sokfan YEE, Masahiro TANAKA, Shuichiro TAKAHASHI, Satoshi NONOYAMA, Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Hikaru SATOU
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Publication number: 20210253170Abstract: The present disclosure encourages utilization of a traveling unit to which a connectable unit can be connected on an upper side in a separable manner. A controller of the traveling unit to which the connectable unit can be connected on the upper side in a separable manner of the present disclosure executes changing a form of the traveling unit so that the traveling unit in a separated state where the connectable unit is separated takes a different form from a form in a connection state where the connectable unit is connected, and controlling travel of the traveling unit in accordance with the form of the traveling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya MATSUNAMI, Atsuko YAMANAKA, Kunihiro TSUNEKAWA, Sokfan YEE, Masahiro TANAKA, Shuichiro TAKAHASHI, Satoshi NONOYAMA, Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Hikaru SATOU