Patents by Inventor Soutaro Kaneko

Soutaro Kaneko 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: 11952115
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948451
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948457
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11928751
    Abstract: A method that is executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information regarding a vehicle, acquiring second information regarding a first product selected by a user, deciding a procedure for loading the first product into the vehicle based on the first information and the second information, and performing notification of the procedure for loading the first product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Josuke Yamane, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11927971
    Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11912276
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11904879
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20240054886
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11891079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20240029552
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230386321
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11823563
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230324193
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a history of travel of a vehicle, a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller is configured to output a first history for a first period in response to a predetermined instruction during the first period and to refrain from outputting the first history, even upon receiving the predetermined instruction, during a second period partitioned from the first period based on information transmitted by a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230319240
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to transmit information to a vehicle about a boarding point, designated by a terminal apparatus, at which a user is to board the vehicle, and transmit, to the terminal apparatus, a captured image of surroundings of the vehicle, the captured image being captured by the vehicle during travel to the boarding point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230316913
    Abstract: A service support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user or a staff member, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a parking status of shared vehicles at a plurality of locations, and transmit presentation data to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface upon detecting an excess of shared vehicles at a first location, a shortage of shared vehicles at a second location, or both based on the acquired status data, the presentation data encouraging the user or the staff member to travel to the second location in a shared vehicle parked at the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11763667
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11762955
    Abstract: A waste collecting device includes an inlet unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire waste information on waste thrown into the inlet unit, and a control unit configured to specify a category of the waste based on the waste information, determine whether the category of the waste matches a predetermined category, and output a determination result via an output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11755039
    Abstract: A server device transmits an instruction for causing a plurality of flying bodies to perform flight operation to the flying bodies. The flight operation includes a step in which a first flying body urges a penetrating tool toward an object placed in a predetermined space and flies out of the predetermined space while holding a first part and a second part of a string member attached to the penetrating tool, the first part having penetrated the object and the second part not having penetrated the object, a step in which a second flying body receives either the first or second part from the first flying body, and a step in which the first and second flying bodies transport the object while towing the object with the string member as the first and second flying bodies fly while respectively holding one or the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230194272
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. When the controller receives information for reserving use of a vehicle from a terminal apparatus, and a distance between an end point of a first use and a start point of a second use that starts after the first use is equal to or less than a reference distance, the controller is configured to transmit a movement instruction to a first terminal apparatus corresponding to the first use for a user to move the vehicle to the start point of the second use at an end of the first use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11587438
    Abstract: A control apparatus is a control apparatus for causing light emitting devices to display a crosswalk when the control apparatus detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a road. The control apparatus includes a controlling portion configured to perform: detect, as a first vehicle, a vehicle traveling in a crosswalk display region where a crosswalk is to be displayed; determine whether or not the speed of the first vehicle is less than a reference speed; and in a case where the speed is less than the reference speed and a predetermined safety standard is satisfied, determine to cause the light emitting devices to display the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko