Patents by Inventor Takahiro Okano

Takahiro Okano 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: 12111655
    Abstract: A multifunctional vehicle includes a traveling input device that is operated by a driver of the multifunctional vehicle; an information processing device that processes operation information of the traveling input device and that switches and executes a normal driving mode for driving the multifunctional vehicle and a remote driving mode for driving the other vehicle; wearable glasses that communicate with another vehicle directly or via the information processing device; and a communication device that communicate with the other vehicle. In the normal driving mode, a vehicle control of the multifunctional vehicle is executed using control information generated based on the operation information. In the remote driving mode, the control information is transmitted to the other vehicle via the communication device. The wearable glasses are configured to display a surrounding image of the other vehicle during execution of the remote driving mode by the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takashima, Takahiro Ogawa, Kenji Tadakuma, Keisuke Miwa, Shuichi Tamagawa, Takahiro Okano, Shun Ota, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240319078
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical inspection method includes: causing a wavelength selection portion to selectively pass light components including at least two different wavelength spectra from an object point and causing an imaging portion including at least two color channels configured to receive the light components of the wavelength spectra to capture the object point; defining the light components of the at least two different wavelength spectra as signal vectors having different directions based on light reception data in the at least two color channels for the object point; and estimating spread of a direction distribution of light at the object point based on the directions of the signal vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFORMATION SYSTEMS (JAPAN) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Hiroya KANO, Takahiro KAMIKAWA, Hideaki OKANO, Sayuri SUZUKI, Chisa HIRAKAWA, Akifumi OHNO, Yoshiaki TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20240319111
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical inspection method includes projecting first pattern light in a first basic modulation mode that periodically changes in bright and dark, onto an object, acquiring a first image by capturing an image of the object onto which the first pattern light has been projected, projecting second pattern light in a first inverted modulation mode in which bright and dark are inverted with respect to the first basic modulation mode, onto the object, acquiring a second image by capturing an image of the object onto which the second pattern light has been projected, and generating a singular light-scattered image in which a singular region including uniquely-scattered light that is extracted based at least on the first image and the second image is intensified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Hideaki OKANO, Kenta TAKANASHI, Takahiro KAMIKAWA, Hiroya KANO
  • Publication number: 20240295883
    Abstract: An operation management system including a computer configured to manage operations of registered mobilities. The computer stores road surface information in association with a position in map data based on at least a detection result of a surroundings monitoring device and positional information received from a measurement mobility. The computer stores, as a detail detection area, at least one of a poor detection area in the map data in which detection of the road surface information by the measurement mobility is poor and a predetermined area in the map data. The computer transmits, to the measurement mobility that is scheduled to travel or that is traveling the detail detection area, a speed change command, such that the measurement mobility, which travels at a normal command speed by automated driving, travels the detail detection area at a specific speed lower than the normal command speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun MIZOO, Takashi HIRANAKA, Kenta OSAGAWA, Shota KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20240262384
    Abstract: A traveling control system configured to control traveling of a movable body includes: a traveling control portion configured to control traveling of the movable body such that a wheel of the movable body passes a protrusion of a road surface, based on an unevenness condition of the road surface of a travel region where the movable body travels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
  • Publication number: 20240249620
    Abstract: A management system configured to manage a plurality of movable bodies that travels a travel region, including: a work plan generating device configured to generate a work plan of the plurality of movable bodies based on a run-through ability of each of the plurality of movable bodies and a road surface condition that is a condition of a road surface of the travel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Toru TAKASHIMA, Takahiro Okano, Shun Mizoo, Yusuke Nozawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
  • Patent number: 12036968
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, including: a wheel brake device configured to generate a braking force based on a pressure of a working fluid; a first brake system including a high-pressure source device including an accumulator and a first pump device that is driven intermittently such that a pressure of the working fluid in the accumulator is not lower than a set lower limit pressure and not higher than a set upper limit pressure; a second brake system including a second pump device; and a main power source that supplies electricity to the first and second brake systems, wherein the hydraulic brake system includes an auxiliary power source that supplies electricity to the first brake system when a failure occurs in the main power source, and wherein the first pump device is continuously driven when the failure occurs irrespective of the pressure in the accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Shun Mizoo, Ken Kuzuya
  • Publication number: 20240208318
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery-side connector and a cover that protects the battery-side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body-side connector electrically connectable to the battery-side connector. The cover exposes the battery-side connector when the battery-side connector is fit to the vehicle body-side connector in a fitting direction in which the vehicle body-side connector and the battery-side connector are fit to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240190268
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body on which a battery is mountable and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector to be engaged with the battery side connector. The battery side connector is made of a material having a lower hardness than a material constituting the vehicle body side connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240190230
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector electrically connectable to the battery side connector and a holding portion that holds the vehicle body side connector. The holding portion holds the vehicle body side connector as being movable along a fitting direction in which the vehicle body side connector and the battery side connector are fitted to each other while the battery side connector is connected to the vehicle body side connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20240144310
    Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240142262
    Abstract: An operation management system including a controller configured to execute: a position obtaining process to obtain positional information from each registered mobility; a correlating process to correlate each registered mobility and specification information stored in a storage device with each other; a travel-history storing process to store, in the storage device, a traveled route which is a travel history of each registered mobility, so as to be correlated with map information; and a road-surface-condition obtaining process to calculate a road surface condition including a position and a shape of a rut corresponding to the traveled route based on information on a detection value of a sensor of each of registered mobility, the type of a road surface included in the map information, the specification information, and the traveled route and to store, in the storage device, the road surface condition so as to be correlated with the map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi
  • Patent number: 11932218
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Tatsushi Kobayashi, Shimpei Kodani
  • Publication number: 20230341857
    Abstract: A work site management system includes: a traveling path generation unit that generates a traveling path; and a protection area setting unit that sets a protection area in which a target vehicle is to be present based on a position of a first unmanned vehicle traveling in a work site along the traveling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima
  • Publication number: 20230339466
    Abstract: A control system for an autonomous travel vehicle includes: a work machine position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a work machine; an autonomous travel vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires a position of the autonomous travel vehicle; a human information acquisition unit that acquires human information indicating whether or not a person is present inside the autonomous travel vehicle; and a command generation unit that changes control of the autonomous travel vehicle based on the human information and a positional relationship between the work machine and the autonomous travel vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano
  • Publication number: 20230339510
    Abstract: A management system for an autonomous travel vehicle includes: a work machine position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a work machine operated by an operator and having a travel device; and a target position determination unit that determines a target position of the autonomous travel vehicle based on the position of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20230341872
    Abstract: A management system of a work site includes: a priority storage unit that stores priority related to traveling continuation of an unmanned vehicle traveling in the work site; an input signal acquisition unit that acquires an input signal related to traveling stop of the unmanned vehicle; a decision unit that decides the traveling continuation or the traveling stop for each of a plurality of the unmanned vehicles traveling in the work site based on the priority and the input signal; and an output unit that outputs a traveling stop command to the unmanned vehicle for which the traveling stop is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo
  • Publication number: 20230341858
    Abstract: A work site management system includes: a traveling path generation unit that generates a traveling path; and a protection area setting unit that sets, for a target vehicle, a protection area in which entry of a second unmanned vehicle is prohibited based on a position of a first unmanned vehicle traveling in a work site along the traveling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano
  • Patent number: 11782454
    Abstract: An unmanned conveying system includes: plural unmanned conveying vehicles that can convey cargo; a cargo priority order deciding section that decides upon a priority order in which the cargo are to be conveyed, in accordance with conditions of the cargo; and a traveling route setting section that decides upon traveling routes of the unmanned conveying vehicles on the basis of the priority order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Takaaki Yanagihashi, Hiroaki Kiyokami, Toru Takashima, Kenta Miyahara, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20230291120
    Abstract: Antenna-directivity adjustment is implemented by adjusting an antenna of a radio communication device in horizontal, vertical, and rotation angles in response to received-signal levels and cross-polarization discriminations. Received-signal levels (RSL) are measured by moving the antenna of the radio communication device in horizontal and vertical directions. Cross-polarization discriminations (XPD) are calculated according to received-signal levels (RSL) measured by changing vertical polarization and horizontal polarization on a transmit side and a receive side with the antenna when rotated and an interference level measured between vertical polarization and horizontal polarization. An antenna direction is adjusted to maximize received-signal levels and cross-polarization discriminations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Okano