Patents by Inventor Takashige HORI
Takashige HORI 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: 10943473Abstract: An information management apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a program which is executable by an information management apparatus is disclosed. The information management apparatus includes: a memory which is configured to store vehicle information; processing circuitry configured to receive the vehicle information and to store the vehicle information in the memory, the vehicle information including vehicle identification information uploaded from each of a plurality of vehicles managed by the information management apparatus, analyze the vehicle information stored in the memory according to a set analysis viewpoint, and change an upload condition of the vehicle information based on an analysis result of the vehicle information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the changed upload condition to a vehicle among the plurality of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Patent number: 10866105Abstract: A route guidance system according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a route search part that searches for one or more routes for each of a way from a point of departure to a destination and a way back from the destination to the point of departure, using more than one type of transportation means; and a route guidance part that presents, when searched routes include a multi-railway-line station and parking lots, a route including a use of different railway lines, from among the plurality of railway lines having access to the multi-railway-line station, on the way to the destination and on the way back from the destination, the route including a parking lot, which allows a total travel time, being a sum of a travel time to the destination and a travel time back from the destination, to be the shortest.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Patent number: 10868891Abstract: A vehicle information transmission system that carries out communication with a management server that manages a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire vehicle information in accordance with a third sampling pattern that is a combination of a first sampling pattern and a second sampling pattern. The vehicle information is transferred within an in-vehicle network installed in the vehicle. The first sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at a change point at which a predetermined change has occurred. The second sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at intervals of a predetermined period. The electronic control unit is configured to transmit the acquired vehicle information to the management server.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashige Hori, Kuniaki Tanaka, Eiji Murata, Masatoshi Takahara, Kouji Maeno, Toshio Kato, Shoji Kamiya
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Patent number: 10828957Abstract: A vehicle system includes: an information processing device; and a vehicle including a first processor configured to detect an inside vehicle cabin temperature in association with time information, at times of starting and stopping of the vehicle. The information processing device includes a second processor configured to: receive, from the vehicle, the inside vehicle cabin temperature, the time information, and the positional information; calculate, for a parking section corresponding to the positional information, a probability of a rise in the inside vehicle cabin temperature in the parking section, by learning the inside vehicle cabin temperature and the time information at the time of the starting and the time of the stopping; and provide a service according to the probability of the rise in the inside vehicle cabin temperature to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashige Hori
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Publication number: 20200303053Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that are executable by an information processing apparatus and that cause the information processing apparatus to execute a step of acquiring schedule information including a first schedule, a second schedule next to the first schedule, and an initial movement method from a first point related to the first schedule to a second point related to the second schedule, a step of correcting the initial movement method such that a consumption calorie required for a movement increases according to at least any one of a first free time from an end timepoint of the first schedule to a departure timepoint of the initial movement method and a second free time from an arrival timepoint of the initial movement method to a start timepoint of the second schedule to generate a corrected movement method, and a step of outputting the generated corrected movement method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashige HORI
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Publication number: 20200302402Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a program causing an information processing apparatus to execute acquiring first climate information indicating a climate at a date and time related to a first schedule registered in a schedule table in which at least one schedule including a date and time, a genre, and a place is registered, determining whether or not the first climate information satisfies a climate compatibility condition, and outputting incompatibility information indicating that the climate at the date and time related to the first schedule is not compatible with a genre related to the first schedule when determination is made that the first climate information does not satisfy the climate compatibility condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Naoto SASAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200292344Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a location history acquisition part that acquires history of location information of a terminal used by a user; an estimating part that estimates the user's location for each particular time period in a day based on the history of the location information; a schedule acquisition part that acquires, from the user's schedule information, a scheduled event with a specified destination and start time of the event; a determining part that determines a starting point of the user by referring to the specified start time of the event and the user's estimated location for each particular time period in a day; a searching part that searches for a route to travel from the determined starting point to the specified destination of the event, as well as a necessary time for the route; a calculating part that calculates a departure time for travel to the destination based on the necessary time obtained by the searching part; and an entry part that enters a travel event includingType: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Patent number: 10769945Abstract: In an information processor, a first acquirer acquires, when a first vehicle is traveling on a first road toward an intersection and a second vehicle is traveling on a second road, which intersects the first road, toward the intersection, a traveling tendency of the first vehicle from a first storage unit storing the traveling tendency at an intersection of each of multiple vehicles. A second acquirer acquires, when the first vehicle is traveling on the first road toward the intersection and the second vehicle is traveling on the second road toward the intersection, riskiness of the intersection from a second storage unit storing the riskiness of each of multiple intersections. Based on the traveling tendency of the first vehicle and the riskiness of the intersection, a judgment unit judges whether or not there is caution information at the time of passing through the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Publication number: 20200234224Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a fatigue level estimation unit configured to estimate a fatigue level of a user based on schedules for the future included in information on schedules of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Makoto AKAHANE, Ken ISHIKAWA, Masatoshi TAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20200231147Abstract: An information processing device includes: an accident/near miss detecting unit that detects a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles based on vehicle information acquired by each of the vehicles and including position information and date-and-time information corresponding to time when the vehicle information is acquired by the vehicles, the first vehicle being involved in a near miss or accident; a surrounding vehicle extracting unit that extracts surrounding vehicles of the vehicles and the date-and-time information corresponding to the position information, the surrounding vehicles being positioned at an area surrounding the first vehicle at time of the near miss or accident; and an object vehicle specifying unit that specifies a second vehicle of the surrounding vehicles, the second vehicle being a vehicle in which an inadequate driving operation causing the near miss or accident of the first vehicle is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Naoto Sasagawa
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Publication number: 20200232811Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an advertising information delivery unit that causes a display device of a user terminal to display advertising information including navigation elements each of which guides the user to a predetermined action related to its content. An information processing device according to another embodiment of the present disclosure includes an advertising information display processing unit that causes a display device of a user terminal to display advertising information including navigation elements each of which guides the user to a predetermined action related to its content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Naoto SASAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200211043Abstract: An information processing device includes circuitry configured to predict a future fuel consumption amount of a vehicle, based on information relevant to an actual result of a fuel consumption amount of the vehicle and information relevant to a plan of a user of the vehicle; and configured to predict a fuel replenishment timing at which a fuel replenishment of the vehicle is needed, based on the future fuel consumption amount of the vehicle and information relevant to a remaining fuel amount of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Publication number: 20200132486Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, and a provision unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire behavior information and a request for route retrieval from the vehicle. The controller is configured to decide a plurality of temporary routes in a case where the request for route retrieval is acquired, recognize a manner reference score of each of the temporary routes, recognize an evaluation score of each of a plurality of manner items based on the behavior information acquired from the vehicle having requested the route retrieval, calculate a total evaluation score by using the evaluation score of each of the manner items, and select some of the temporary routes as proposal routes based on comparison between the manner reference score and the total evaluation score. The provision unit is configured to provide the proposal routes to the vehicle having requested the route retrieval.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Ken Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20200116510Abstract: When there is the second user who is already in a vehicle or is going to ride in the vehicle earlier and when the profile information of the first user satisfies the matching requirement for the second user set by the second user, the matching unit determines that the first user can ride with the second user. The matching requirement of the second user can be changed upon input from the second user or according to the riding and alighting positions of the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashige HORI
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Publication number: 20200118434Abstract: In an information processor, a first acquirer acquires, when a first vehicle is traveling on a first road toward an intersection and a second vehicle is traveling on a second road, which intersects the first road, toward the intersection, a traveling tendency of the first vehicle from a first storage unit storing the traveling tendency at an intersection of each of multiple vehicles. A second acquirer acquires, when the first vehicle is traveling on the first road toward the intersection and the second vehicle is traveling on the second road toward the intersection, riskiness of the intersection from a second storage unit storing the riskiness of each of multiple intersections. Based on the traveling tendency of the first vehicle and the riskiness of the intersection, a judgment unit judges whether or not there is caution information at the time of passing through the intersection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Makoto AKAHANE
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Publication number: 20200097887Abstract: In a schedule management device, a schedule acquirer acquires schedule information, which includes a scheduled time, of a user. A vacant time detector detects, when the start time of a schedule item in acquired schedule information is delayed or when the finish time of a schedule item is in acquired schedule information advanced, the difference from the original start time or the original finish time as a vacant time of the user. A deriver derives action proposal information available for a detected vacant time and related to the action plan of a future schedule item.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashige HORI
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Patent number: 10549677Abstract: A vehicle system includes an information processing device and a vehicle. The vehicle includes: a detection unit configured to detect an illuminance change; an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information; a first sending unit configured to send, to the information processing device, (i) illuminance change position information and (ii) traveling information; a first receiving unit configured to receive a turn-on condition from the information processing device; and a turn-on unit configured to turn on a headlight according to the traveling information and the turn-on condition. The information processing device includes a learning unit configured to learn, as the turn-on condition, traveling content of the vehicle before the vehicle reaches the position where the illuminance change is detected, by using the travelling information, and a second sending unit configured to send the turn-on condition to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 10540893Abstract: In an information processor, a first acquirer acquires, when a first vehicle is traveling on a first road toward an intersection and a second vehicle is traveling on a second road, which intersects the first road, toward the intersection, a traveling tendency of the first vehicle from a first storage unit storing the traveling tendency at an intersection of each of multiple vehicles. A second acquirer acquires, when the first vehicle is traveling on the first road toward the intersection and the second vehicle is traveling on the second road toward the intersection, riskiness of the intersection from a second storage unit storing the riskiness of each of multiple intersections. Based on the traveling tendency of the first vehicle and the riskiness of the intersection, a judgment unit judges whether or not there is caution information at the time of passing through the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Patent number: 10504371Abstract: A drive assist system according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image analysis unit that analyzes an image captured by a forward-shooting camera mounted on a vehicle and identifies, when recognizing a person performing an action in a direction toward an obstacle located so as to face a traffic lane ahead of the vehicle and an object moving toward the traffic lane ahead of the vehicle from a rear of the obstacle, a combination of the recognized action of the person and the recognized object as a type of dangerous scene; a storage unit that stores dangerous scene type information related to the identified type of dangerous scene; a judgment unit that judges whether or not there is an action of a person included in the dangerous scene type information stored in the storage unit which is similar to the action of the person recognized based on the image captured by the camera; a drive assist unit that assists driving by alerting a driver by notifying the driver that an object included in dangerType: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane
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Publication number: 20190340637Abstract: A server system includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to store reservation information of a vehicle to be used by a first user, receive, from a first terminal device, coupon information showing the content of a coupon to be granted to a passenger who will share a ride in the vehicle with the first user, deliver, to one or more terminal devices, a passenger recruitment notification including the coupon information, transmits a ride-sharing application notification to the first terminal device upon receiving a request for transmission of the ride-sharing application notification from a second terminal device among one or more terminal devices, and add, to the reservation information, a user ID of a second user of the second terminal device as a user ID of a passenger who will share a ride in the vehicle with the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Katsunori TAKAMI