Patents by Inventor Takayuki Aoki

Takayuki Aoki 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: 12288354
    Abstract: An extraction unit of a mobile terminal extracts a plurality of feature points from within a shooting range of a camera, based on shooting results of the camera provided on AR glasses. A determination unit determines a boundary between a first region corresponding to an inside of a vehicle cabin and a second region corresponding to an outside of the vehicle cabin within the shooting range of the camera based on discontinuity of movement vectors of the feature points when a vehicle moves. A specifying unit specifies a position of the AR glasses based on a determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Aoki, Ryusuke Ohta, Daisuke Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20240354986
    Abstract: An extraction unit of a mobile terminal extracts a plurality of feature points from within a shooting range of a camera, based on shooting results of the camera provided on AR glasses. A determination unit determines a boundary between a first region corresponding to an inside of a vehicle cabin and a second region corresponding to an outside of the vehicle cabin within the shooting range of the camera based on discontinuity of movement vectors of the feature points when a vehicle moves. A specifying unit specifies a position of the AR glasses based on a determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki AOKI, Ryusuke OHTA, Daisuke ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20240343876
    Abstract: Provided are heat-expandable microspheres which have high expansion performance to exhibit highly thermoresponsive expansion behavior in short heating time and the application thereof. The heat-expandable microspheres are composed of a thermoplastic resin shell and a blowing agent encapsulated therein and vaporizable by heating. The thermoplastic resin is a polymer of a polymerizable component containing a nitrile monomer, and the nitrile monomer contains acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile in a ratio of 100 parts by weight/40 parts by weight to 80 parts by weight. The blowing agent contains a blowing agent (a) having a specific heat in the range from 0.8 J/g·K to 2.0 J/g·K. Also disclosed is a composition containing the heat-expandable microspheres and a formed product manufactured by forming the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: MATSUMOTO YUSHI-SEIYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro YAMAUCHI, Takayuki AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240296581
    Abstract: The storage unit stores first feature point information of the AR glasses obtained by photographing the AR glasses with a camera (tracking camera or camera) and extracting features. Further, the specifying unit combines second feature point information obtained by photographing the AR glasses brought into the car with a tracking camera and extracting features with the first feature point information stored in the storage unit. The position of the AR glasses brought into the vehicle is determined based on the verification results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki AOKI, Daisuke Itagaki, Ryusuke Ohta
  • Patent number: 12039898
    Abstract: In AR glasses, an incident angle calculation unit calculates first and second angles of incidence of first and second markers, respectively, to an imager relative to a reference line in the real world in accordance with image plane coordinates of the first and second markers in the image captured by the imager. A separation distance calculation unit calculates a camera-to-marker distance, which is a distance from the imager to the first marker, in accordance with the calculated first and second angles of incidence, and an inter-marker separation distance between the first and second markers along the reference line in the real world. A display adjustment unit adjusts a projection position and size of the AR image with respect to the first marker in the image plane coordinates in accordance with the camera-to-marker distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Takayuki Aoki, Ryusuke Ohta, Hitoshi Muraki, Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 12030426
    Abstract: A lever operation device includes an operation lever which rotates integrally with a steering wheel of a vehicle and receives operations at least in upward and downward directions and around which a predetermined region is set so as to prevent the operation lever from contacting with a leg of a user seated in a driver's seat when the steering wheel is rotated to a maximum steering angle, and an operation portion that is arranged on the operation lever so as not to be located out of the region and includes plural operating positions each assigned an executable function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sato, Nobuyuki Ishigure, Tadashi Usuya, Akio Nishiyama, Masahiro Kato, Shinji Hara, Takayuki Aoki, Ryusuke Ohta, Toshihiko Kosugi, Shinji Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20240210694
    Abstract: A control unit is provided in a wearable terminal mounted on a head of an occupant of a vehicle, and controls a display unit that is positioned immediately before an eye of the occupant when the wearable terminal is mounted on the head and can display a plurality of types of object images, and the control unit decides whether or not to display a specific object image that is a predetermined object image on the display unit based on at least one of information on a line of sight of the occupant and information on a swing of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki AOKI, Ryusuke Ohta, Daisuke Itagaki, Hitoshi Muraki
  • Patent number: 11980926
    Abstract: A received beam amount acquisition section 60 acquires a received beam amount per unit time of a beam receiver 52 at certain sampling time intervals. A beam shielding detection section 66 detects presence or absence of beam shielding of a monitoring beam B by determining whether or not the acquired received beam amount per unit time of the beam receiver is lower than a determination threshold Th for detecting the presence of beam shielding of the monitoring beam B. A detection sensitivity of the beam shielding detection section 66 is configured to be switched from a normal sensitivity mode to a high sensitivity mode when bending is initial processing based on a predetermined processing program, and an acquired height position of the beam receiver 52 is lower than a predetermined second height position LP2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanehide Amano, Hideki Sasaki, Takayuki Aoki, Taichi Suzuki, Humitaka Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11878731
    Abstract: A switch device includes a switch body, which is attached to and rotated integrally with an irregularly-shaped steering unit, and a lever unit, which is held pivotally about a switch body. The lever unit includes a lever shaft including a base, which extends in a direction intersecting the steering shaft, and an arm, which is formed integrally with the base and extends in a direction that differs from the direction in which the base extends. The lever unit also includes a lever head at the distal end of the lever shaft, and the lever head extends from the lever shaft in the width direction, which intersects an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Nobuyuki Ishigure, Yuki Sato, Tadashi Usuya, Takayuki Aoki, Shinji Matsubara, Toshihiko Kosugi, Ryusuke Ohta, Shinji Hara
  • Patent number: 11875530
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display configured to be attached to the head of a user who is an occupant of a vehicle, to display a subject image to be superimposed on a field of vision of the user; a SLAM camera fixed to the display to capture a SLAM image of surroundings of the display; one or more light on-vehicle displays disposed within a vehicle cabin to emit light that serves as an AR marker; and an image controller configured to determine a display position of the subject image based on the SLAM image including the AR marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Aoki, Hideki Kobayashi, Ryusuke Ohta, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
  • Patent number: 11815695
    Abstract: An image display system includes a wearable device including a display configured to display an image in a field of vision of a user and a first sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the display, and a mobile terminal including a second sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the vehicle. The image display system further includes an image controller including a computer installed in the mobile terminal to display a subject image on the display in an AR display mode. The image controller is configured to determine a display position of the subject image on the display based at least on the absolute movement of the display detected by the first sensor and the absolute movement of the vehicle detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Aoki, Ryusuke Ohta, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
  • Patent number: 11747628
    Abstract: AR glasses include: a display unit that displays a virtual image within a field of view of a wearer such that an actual view right in front of the wearer is able to be seen; and a liquid crystal panel that is able to partially change a transmittance of external light. An AR glasses control unit sets a transmittance of external light of a portion of the liquid crystal panel corresponding to the virtual image to be lower than a transmittance of external light of another portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20230250242
    Abstract: A masterbatch for foam molding which contains a base resin and heat-expandable microspheres. The base resin contains EPDM and the masterbatch contains the heat-expandable microspheres in an amount ranging from higher than 300 parts by weight to 750 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the base resin and has a Moony viscosity ML 1+4 (100° C.) ranging from 15 to 90. Also disclosed is a method for producing a masterbatch for foam molding, a resin composition containing the masterbatch for foam molding, and a foam-molded product manufactured by molding the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: MATSUMOTO YUSHI-SEIYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu KITA, Takayuki AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230204961
    Abstract: AR glasses include: a display unit that displays a virtual image within a field of view of a wearer such that an actual view right in front of the wearer is able to be seen; and a liquid crystal panel that is able to partially change a transmittance of external light. An AR glasses control unit sets a transmittance of external light of a portion of the liquid crystal panel corresponding to the virtual image to be lower than a transmittance of external light of another portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Takayuki AOKI
  • Patent number: 11673597
    Abstract: A switch device includes a switch body, which is arranged at the back side of a steering unit, and a lever unit, which is attached to the switch body to allow for switching by a pivotal operation about a first axis, which extends in the axial direction of a steering shaft. The lever unit includes a lever shaft, which extends in a direction intersecting the first axis of the pivotal operation, a lever head, which is arranged at the distal end of the lever shaft and has a larger dimension than the diameter of the lever shaft, and a push operation unit, which allows for switching by a push operation. The push operation unit is arranged so that the operation direction of the push operation is directed toward the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ishigure, Yuki Sato, Tadashi Usuya, Akio Nishiyama, Masahiro Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Shinji Matsubara, Toshihiko Kosugi, Ryusuke Ohta, Shinji Hara
  • Publication number: 20230161169
    Abstract: An image display system includes a wearable device including a display configured to display an image in a field of vision of a user and a first sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the display, and a mobile terminal including a second sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the vehicle. The image display system further includes an image controller including a computer installed in the mobile terminal to display a subject image on the display in an AR display mode. The image controller is configured to determine a display position of the subject image on the display based at least on the absolute movement of the display detected by the first sensor and the absolute movement of the vehicle detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki AOKI, Ryusuke OHTA, Tomohiro INADA, Hitoshi MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20220396199
    Abstract: A lever operation device includes an operation lever which rotates integrally with a steering wheel of a vehicle and receives operations at least in upward and downward directions and around which a predetermined region is set so as to prevent the operation lever from contacting with a leg of a user seated in a driver's seat when the steering wheel is rotated to a maximum steering angle, and an operation portion that is arranged on the operation lever so as not to be located out of the region and includes plural operating positions each assigned an executable function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Nobuyuki ISHIGURE, Tadashi USUYA, Akio NISHIYAMA, Masahiro KATO, Shinji HARA, Takayuki AOKI, Ryusuke OHTA, Toshihiko KOSUGI, Shinji MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20220062966
    Abstract: A received beam amount acquisition section 60 acquires a received beam amount per unit time of a beam receiver 52 at certain sampling time intervals. A beam shielding detection section 66 detects presence or absence of beam shielding of a monitoring beam B by determining whether or not the acquired received beam amount per unit time of the beam receiver is lower than a determination threshold Th for detecting the presence of beam shielding of the monitoring beam B. A detection sensitivity of the beam shielding detection section 66 is configured to be switched from a normal sensitivity mode to a high sensitivity mode when bending is initial processing based on a predetermined processing program, and an acquired height position of the beam receiver 52 is lower than a predetermined second height position LP2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kanehide AMANO, Hideki SASAKI, Takayuki AOKI, Taichi SUZUKI, Humitaka OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220021075
    Abstract: A porous film having favorable characteristics is manufactured. A method of manufacturing the porous film of the present invention includes: (a) a step of modifying a first filler to be hydrophobic by mixture of the first filler and an additive; (b) a step of forming a coating liquid by mixture of the hydrophobic first filler, a second filler and solvent; and (c) a step of forming a coating film (CF) by application of the coating liquid onto a surface of a porous base substance (S). In the step (a), the first filler is a cellulose, and a hydrophilic group of the cellulose is substituted with a hydrophobic group by a reaction between the cellulose and the additive. When the coating film is formed on the surface of the porous base substance as described above, mechanical strength and heat resistance of the porous film (separator) can be improved. For example, thermal deformation of the porous film (separator) can be equal to or lower than 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Ryo ISHIGURO, Satoru NAKAMURA, Takayuki AOKI, Hiroshi ODA
  • Publication number: 20210276605
    Abstract: A switch device includes a switch body, which is attached to and rotated integrally with an irregularly-shaped steering unit, and a lever unit, which is held pivotally about a switch body. The lever unit includes a lever shaft including a base, which extends in a direction intersecting the steering shaft, and an arm, which is formed integrally with the base and extends in a direction that differs from the direction in which the base extends. The lever unit also includes a lever head at the distal end of the lever shaft, and the lever head extends from the lever shaft in the width direction, which intersects an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Nobuyuki Ishigure, Yuki Sato, Tadashi Usuya, Takayuki Aoki, Shinji Matsubara, Toshihiko Kosugi, Ryusuke Ohta, Shinji Hara