Patents by Inventor Taisuke Tone

Taisuke Tone 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: 10962379
    Abstract: An information providing device includes a memory configured to store estimated destinations on a map in association with scheduled activity venue names, and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a user's scheduled activity venue name from user's activity schedule information; read a user's estimated destination corresponding to the user's scheduled activity venue name from the memory; provide an in-vehicle device with information for presenting a route to the user's estimated destination; acquire information regarding a stay place from the in-vehicle device; and store the stay place, in the memory, as a new estimated destination in association with the user's scheduled activity venue name, when the user's estimated destination differs from the stay place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taisuke Tone, Xin Jin, Atsushi Kubo, Miharu Hanai
  • Publication number: 20190390967
    Abstract: An information providing device includes a memory configured to store estimated destinations on a map in association with scheduled activity venue names, and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a user's scheduled activity venue name from user's activity schedule information; read a user's estimated destination corresponding to the user's scheduled activity venue name from the memory; provide an in-vehicle device with information for presenting a route to the user's estimated destination; acquire information regarding a stay place from the in-vehicle device; and store the stay place, in the memory, as a new estimated destination in association with the user's scheduled activity venue name, when the user's estimated destination differs from the stay place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taisuke TONE, Xin JIN, Atsushi KUBO, Miharu HANAI
  • Publication number: 20190362387
    Abstract: An information presentation device includes a communication unit configured to receive advertisement information associated with a destination estimated as a point to which a user travels, and a controller configured to present the advertisement information to the user before the user starts traveling. The controller is configured to restrict presentation of the advertisement information while the user is traveling more than before travel starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Xin JIN, Taisuke TONE, Atsushi KUBO, Miharu HANAI
  • Publication number: 20190178665
    Abstract: A destination estimation apparatus according to the present invention includes: a storage unit that stores information about at least one stop location of a vehicle used by a user and information about at least one past plan of the user in association with each other; and a destination estimation unit that estimates a destination with respect to information about a future plan of the user, based on the information about one of the at least one stop location that is associated with the information about one of the at least one past plan stored in the storage unit that corresponds to the information about the future plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke SAKAIDA, Taisuke TONE, Xin JIN, Atsushi KUBO, Miharu HANAI, Youichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180209810
    Abstract: An information output system for a vehicle includes an on-board device mounted in the vehicle; and a server. The server is configured to communicate with the on-board device, and transmit, to the on-board device, information data including destination information data corresponding to a destination of the vehicle when the server is notified of the destination of the vehicle from a user of the vehicle. The on-board device is configured to perform an output process of outputting, via a first output device in the vehicle, at least one of a still image, a moving image, and a sound. The still image, the moving image, and the sound correspond to the destination information data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taisuke TONE
  • Publication number: 20150334557
    Abstract: An information display apparatus configured to display database information obtained from an outside, includes a control unit configured to execute control for, when newly obtaining the database information from the outside, obtaining history information about the database information to be newly obtained from the outside, earlier than obtaining the database information to be newly obtained, and associating the history information with the database information that has already been obtained, to display the history information including the database information that has already been obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Akira SASAKI, Taisuke TONE
  • Patent number: 9122569
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: an actuator that drives a back door of a vehicle; an opening degree control unit that controls an opening degree of the back door by controlling the actuator; a storage device that stores an allowable opening degree of the back door at a park position of the vehicle in association with the park position; and a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of the vehicle. When a position of the vehicle corresponds to the park position stored in the storage device, the opening degree control unit limits the opening degree of the back door on the basis of the allowable opening degree of the back door, stored in the storage device in association with the park position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahisa Ishibashi, Akiteru Takae, Teruhide Hayashida, Tetsuya Oda, Taisuke Tone, Yusuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20130317706
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: an actuator that drives a back door of a vehicle; an opening degree control unit that controls an opening degree of the back door by controlling the actuator; a storage device that stores an allowable opening degree of the back door at a park position of the vehicle in association with the park position; and a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of the vehicle. When a position of the vehicle corresponds to the park position stored in the storage device, the opening degree control unit limits the opening degree of the back door on the basis of the allowable opening degree of the back door, stored in the storage device in association with the park position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahisa Ishibashi, Akiteru Takae, Teruhide Hayashida, Tetsuya Oda, Taisuke Tone, Yusuke Sato