Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Inada

Tomohiro Inada 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: 11958360
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine content to be superimposed and displayed over an object on a first display unit fixed to a moving body or a second display unit worn on a human body, the object being a real image seen through the first display unit or the second display unit; select either the first display unit or the second display unit to display the content based on a predetermined condition; and superimpose and display the content over the object on the first display unit or the second display unit, the first display unit or the second display unit being selected to display the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
  • Patent number: 11897496
    Abstract: A determination unit that determines whether a driver of a vehicle is dozing or looking away based on a state of the driver, a smart contact lens worn on an eyeball of the driver, and a display control unit that causes the smart contact lens to display a warning when the determination unit determines that the driver is dozing or looking away are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kato, Yasuhiro Miura, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
  • 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: 11772490
    Abstract: An onboard equipment operating device includes a memory, a processor, a display unit, an operation unit, and an in-cabin camera. The display unit displays information regarding onboard equipment, instruction to the onboard equipment displayed at the display unit is configured to be received as a result of manual operation of the operation unit. The in-cabin camera captures images of a vehicle occupant. The processor is configured to: detect a predetermined action from actions of a face or a body of the vehicle occupant, the actions of the face or the body of the vehicle occupant being imaged by the in-cabin camera; input an instruction corresponding to the predetermined action to the onboard equipment; and display the information regarding the onboard equipment in an operatable state at the display unit, in a case in which the instruction corresponding to the predetermined action has been input to the onboard equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 11682339
    Abstract: A vehicle display control apparatus is equipped with a display device, and a control unit that causes the display device to display a peripheral screen for presenting a driver of an own vehicle with a position of a different vehicle running around the own vehicle with respect to the own vehicle. The control unit is configured to acquire the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle and a driving manner score as a numerical rating scale representing how good driving manners of the different vehicle are, and display the driving manner score on the peripheral screen in such a manner as to correspond to the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20230161161
    Abstract: An image display controller for displaying an image on a display of a wearable terminal is configured to estimate a self-location of the wearable terminal, determine a display position of an image on the display based on the estimated self-location, display the image at the determined display position, detect whether an actual location of the wearable terminal is in a vehicle compartment, and decrease a frequency of estimating the self-location when the actual location is detected in the vehicle compartment to a frequency lower than a frequency of estimating the self-location when the actual location is detected outside the vehicle compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro INADA
  • 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: 20230062626
    Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes an acquirer configured to acquire biometric information related to an eyeball of an occupant of a vehicle from a wearable device worn on the eyeball of the occupant, and an authenticator configured to authenticate the occupant by using the acquired biometric information and prestored biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro INADA, Hitoshi MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20230062934
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine content to be superimposed and displayed over an object on a first display unit fixed to a moving body or a second display unit worn on a human body, the object being a real image seen through the first display unit or the second display unit; select either the first display unit or the second display unit to display the content based on a predetermined condition; and superimpose and display the content over the object on the first display unit or the second display unit, the first display unit or the second display unit being selected to display the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro INADA, Hitoshi MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20230061424
    Abstract: A determination unit that determines whether a driver of a vehicle is dozing or looking away based on a state of the driver, a smart contact lens worn on an eyeball of the driver, and a display control unit that causes the smart contact lens to display a warning when the determination unit determines that the driver is dozing or looking away are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki KATO, Yasuhiro MIURA, Tomohiro INADA, Hitoshi MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20220375391
    Abstract: A vehicle display control apparatus is equipped with a display device, and a control unit that causes the display device to display a peripheral screen for presenting a driver of an own vehicle with a position of a different vehicle running around the own vehicle with respect to the own vehicle. The control unit is configured to acquire the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle and a driving manner score as a numerical rating scale representing how good driving manners of the different vehicle are, and display the driving manner score on the peripheral screen in such a manner as to correspond to the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Tomohiro INADA
  • Publication number: 20210188087
    Abstract: An onboard equipment operating device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a display unit, an operation unit, and an in-cabin camera. The display unit displays information regarding onboard equipment, instruction to the onboard equipment displayed at the display unit is configured to be received as a result of manual operation of the operation unit. The in-cabin camera captures images of a vehicle occupant. The processor is configured to: detect a predetermined action from actions of a face or a body of the vehicle occupant, the actions of the face or the body of the vehicle occupant being imaged by the in-cabin camera; input an instruction corresponding to the predetermined action to the onboard equipment; and display the information regarding the onboard equipment in an operatable state at the display unit, in a case in which the instruction corresponding to the predetermined action has been input to the onboard equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Tomohiro INADA
  • Patent number: 7234516
    Abstract: When it is assumed that a vehicle is stopped or parked after its engine was stopped and a predetermined period of time has passed, a cold wind side air mixing door, hot wind side air mixing door, cold wind door and rear cold wind side air mixing door are totally closed and a blower is operated for a predetermined period of time. Accordingly, while a cooler is being dried, drying air containing much offensive smell components, which has passed through the cooler, is discharged outside the vehicle. Therefore, it is unnecessary to provide an exclusively used air passage and an opening and closing door for opening and closing the air passage used for composing an air blowing passage to dry the cooler. By utilizing the existing equipment, air used for drying, which has passed through the cooler, containing much offensive smell components can be discharged outside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umebayashi, Yoshinori Yanagimachi, Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 7210523
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner has an air conditioning unit and an air conditioning control unit. The air conditioning unit has a FACE blowout port, a DEF blowout port, an upper blowout port. The air conditioning control unit estimates an outside windshield temperature and determines an outside dew point temperature. The control unit also controls the upper blowout port to stop blowing or not based on the estimated outside windshield temperature and the outside dew point temperature in a face mode to prevent the windshield from fogging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umebayashi, Tomohiro Inada, Yoshinori Yanagimachi
  • Patent number: 7055340
    Abstract: A control device is provided in a vehicle to control an air conditioning apparatus and thereby to control ventilation and air conditioning of a passenger room of the vehicle. A mobile device communicates with the control device in a parked state of the vehicle to selectively control a first device, which performs ventilation of the passenger room, and a second device, which performs air conditioning of the passenger room, of the air conditioning apparatus in such a manner that at least one of the first device and the second device is selectively operated upon reception of a corresponding operational instruction from the operating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umebayashi, Yoshinori Yanagimachi, Tomohiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20060116064
    Abstract: In the ceiling air-blowing device for a vehicle air conditioner, a ceiling wall is disposed along a vehicle ceiling portion to define an air passage so that air from an air conditioner unit is introduced into the air passage through a pillar duct. The ceiling wall is formed with a plurality of holes having openings on a lower surface of the ceiling wall, so that the air in the air passage is blown off into the passenger compartment through the holes. Further, the holes are formed such that a total area of the openings of the holes per unit area at a position that is proximate to the end of the duct is smaller than that at a second position that is farther from the end of the duct than the first position. Therefore, the air is uniformly blown into the passenger compartment over a wide range of the ceiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Makoto Umebayashi, Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 7013656
    Abstract: A ventilation and deodorization system includes a door lock switching unit for performing a locking and an unlocking of a vehicle door, an air conditioner which introduces outside air of a passenger compartment of the vehicle and blows the introduced outside air into the passenger compartment in a ventilation operation, and a control device for controlling its operation. When a door unlocking request signal is received as a remote operation signal by a receiving unit, the door lock switching unit performs the unlocking of the vehicle door, and the air conditioner performs the ventilation operation. Alternatively, an air cleaning operation is performed instead of the ventilation operation, while inside air of the passenger compartment is cleaned and circulated by an air cleaning device. Thus, the ventilation operation or the air cleaning operation can be performed while a battery consumption amount can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corpration
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yanagimachi, Makoto Umebayashi, Tomohiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20040200228
    Abstract: A ventilation and deodorization system includes a door lock switching unit for performing a locking and an unlocking of a vehicle door, an air conditioner which introduces outside air of a passenger compartment of the vehicle and blows the introduced outside air into the passenger compartment in a ventilation operation, and a control device for controlling its operation. When a door unlocking request signal is received as a remote operation signal by a receiving unit, the door lock switching unit performs the unlocking of the vehicle door, and the air conditioner performs the ventilation operation. Alternatively, an air cleaning operation is performed instead of the ventilation operation, while inside air of the passenger compartment is cleaned and circulated by an air cleaning device. Thus, the ventilation operation or the air cleaning operation can be performed while a battery consumption amount can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yanagimachi, Makoto Umebayashi, Tomohiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20040194479
    Abstract: A control device is provided in a vehicle to control an air conditioning apparatus and thereby to control ventilation and air conditioning of a passenger room of the vehicle. A mobile device communicates with the control device in a parked state of the vehicle to selectively control a first device, which performs ventilation of the passenger room, and a second device, which performs air conditioning of the passenger room, of the air conditioning apparatus in such a manner that at least one of the first device and the second device is selectively operated upon reception of a corresponding operational instruction from the operating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Makoto Umebayashi, Yoshinori Yanagimachi, Tomohiro Inada