Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Kaneko

Tomohiro Kaneko 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).

  • Publication number: 20230109079
    Abstract: A data collection system collects data, for training of a machine learning model for classifying into a plurality of classes, from a data acquisition device to a data collection device. The system includes a processor configured to specify an occurrence probability of occurrence of a low occurrence class for each condition; set a target transmission amount per unit time; specify a current condition; and transmit data from the data acquisition device to the data collection device, in accordance with a target transmission amount corresponding to the specified current condition. The amount of data transmission is larger in a condition having a relatively higher occurrence probability of the low occurrence class, compared to a condition having a relatively lower occurrence probability of occurrence of the low occurrence class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Akihito Ito, Ryo Nakabayashi, Tatsuya Imamura, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hiroki Murata
  • Publication number: 20230108162
    Abstract: A data collection system has a data acquisition device located in a predetermined target area and a data collection device communicable with the data acquisition device, and collects data necessary for use or training of a machine learning model from the data acquisition device to the data collection device. The data collection system includes a processor configured to: determine whether a collection promotion condition is satisfied; and control data transmission. The processor controls data transmission from the data acquisition device to the data collection device so that an amount of data transmission per unit time is larger when it is determined that the collection promotion condition is satisfied, compared to when it is determined that the collection promotion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Akihito Ito, Ryo Nakabayashi, Tatsuya Imamura, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hiroki Murata
  • Publication number: 20230104613
    Abstract: A data management device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a resident's degree of acceptance of data collection in a residential unit, and a sensor setting unit that determines an activating mode of each of a group of sensors in the residential unit based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230081930
    Abstract: A data collection apparatus collects data used for a process, based on image data representing a group of consecutive images received from an imaging device. A processor of the data collection apparatus is configured to: control transmission of image data to the data collection apparatus; detect an object included in each image of an image group represented by the image data; track a detected object between consecutive images; store object image data relating to each object tracked; and calculate a number of objects included in an image represented by the image data. The control of transmission of the image data or the detection of the objects is performed such that an amount of data per unit number of objects is smaller when the calculated number of objects is relatively larger, as compared to when the number is relatively smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Akihito Ito, Ryo Nakabayashi, Tatsuya Imamura, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hiroki Murata
  • Publication number: 20230081719
    Abstract: A model management device includes a communication execution unit that transmits, when a first machine learning model having an accuracy of a predetermined value or more is generated in a first target area, information about the first machine learning model to at least one target area different from the first target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230071657
    Abstract: A data collection apparatus can communicates with a plurality of terminal devices located in a predetermined target area and respectively held by individuals, and collects data from the terminal devices. The data collection apparatus includes a transmission control unit for controlling transmission of data from the terminal devices; and a calculation unit for calculating the number of the terminal devices located in the target area. The transmission control unit controls transmission of data from the terminal devices so that when the number of the terminal devices located in the target area is relatively large, the transmission speed of data from the terminal devices is slower or the number of the terminal devices stopping transmission of data among the terminal devices located in the target area is larger than when the number of the terminal devices located in the target area is relatively small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230069594
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processing unit which creates a power-supply plan that ensures a first amount of electric power needed for the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the current location along a travel route. The travel route includes a specified section on which wireless power-supply equipment, among a plurality of power-supply equipment, is disposed. Using weather information including the specified section, the processing unit creates the power-supply plan in which a ratio of a second amount of electric power, which is supplied from the at least one wireless power-supply equipment to the vehicle, to the first amount of electric power is less in a first case in which deposition is determined to be present on the specified section than in a second case in which deposition is determined to be not present on the at least one specified section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230028323
    Abstract: A charging amount calculation apparatus calculates an amount of power consumption by a battery for running along a running route and a during-running charging amount received by a power reception apparatus from at least one second power feeding facility. The charging amount calculation apparatus calculates a pre-running charging amount based on the amount of power consumption and the during-running charging amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Midori SUGIYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Hirotaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230028631
    Abstract: A vehicle information DB holds information on whether or not a vehicle falls under a welfare vehicle provided with an assistance apparatus for a driver who has a lower limb impairment. A power feed facility DB holds position information of a power feed facility and information indicating whether the power feed facility falls under a contact type power feed facility or a wireless power feed facility. A processing apparatus creates a travel route such that a larger number of wireless power feed facilities are included along the travel route when the vehicle falls under the welfare vehicle than when the vehicle does not fall under the welfare vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Midori SUGIYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Hirotaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230008923
    Abstract: A processor of a control device of a server for machine learning a plurality of models with different output parameters, comprising a receiving part for receiving information from a plurality of equipment connected to be able to communicate, a learning use data set preparing part for using information which the receiving part receives to prepare a learning use data set for each model, and a learning part for machine learning with priority a model with a high priority order in models for which the number of data sets required for learning have been prepared based on the priority orders of learning among models if the number of data sets required for learning have been prepared for a plurality of models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Akihito Ito, Ryo Nakabayashi, Tatsuya Imamura, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hiroki Murata
  • Publication number: 20230008278
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus 1 includes a controller 61 configured to perform a first recipe and a second recipe in parallel. Each of the first recipe and the second recipe includes a first transfer processing of transferring a substrate from a transit unit 14 to a liquid processing unit 17, a liquid processing, a second transfer processing of transferring the substrate from the liquid processing unit 17 to a drying unit 18 and a drying processing. The controller 61 determines, while the first recipe on a first substrate in substrates is being performed, when the second recipe on a second substrate in the substrates is started, a start timing of the first transfer processing of the second substrate such that a time period of the second transfer processing of the first substrate does not overlap with a time period of the second transfer processing of the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei Goto, Tomohiro Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230001825
    Abstract: A server prepares a charging plan for a travel route to a destination. The server obtains an outside air temperature and a battery temperature. The server reads a map from a storage, and calculates an amount of required heat required for increasing the battery temperature to a target temperature by collating the outside air temperature and the battery temperature with the map. The server prepares the charging plan such that an SOC of a battery at the time of arrival at the destination attains to a prescribed SOC and a sum of an amount of heat generation by charging of the battery at a charging point and an amount of heat generation by charging and discharging of the battery with travel of a vehicle is equal to the amount of required heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Midori SUGIYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Hirotaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220402087
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of grinding a first substrate in a combined substrate in which the first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other includes measuring a total thickness distribution of the combined substrate; measuring a thickness distribution of the first substrate; calculating a thickness distribution of the second substrate by subtracting the thickness distribution of the first substrate from the total thickness distribution of the combined substrate; deciding a relative inclination between a substrate holder configured to hold the combined substrate and a grinder configured to grind the combined substrate, based on the thickness distribution of the second substrate; and grinding the first substrate while holding the combined substrate at the inclination which is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Nobutaka FUKUNAGA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Takeshi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220402094
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes measuring a first thickness distribution of a first substrate in a first one of multiple combined substrates before being subjected to a finishing grinding; measuring a second thickness distribution of the first substrate in a second one of the multiple combined substrates before being subjected to the finishing grinding; deciding a relative inclination between a substrate holder configured to hold the second one of the multiple combined substrates and a grinder configured to perform the finishing grinding on the corresponding combined substrate, based on first difference data between the first thickness distribution and the second thickness distribution; and performing finishing grinding on the first substrate in the second one of the multiple combined substrates while holding the second one of the multiple combined substrates at the inclination which is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Nobutaka FUKUNAGA, Takeshi MATSUMOTO, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11524628
    Abstract: A notification device in a vehicle enables a person outside the vehicle to be notified of a predetermined operating state of the vehicle by the light emission, and includes: a plurality of spot-shaped light sources arranged at intervals to follow an upper edge of a windshield; a reflecting part reflecting light from the light sources to a front; an outer lens transmitting therethrough the light heading toward the front from the reflecting part; and a housing. The outer lens has on at least one of front and rear faces thereof a fine concave-convex face diffusing the light transmitted through the outer lens. Accordingly, the device is visible through an upper part of the windshield from a person outside the vehicle so that visibility is very good, and the light from the relatively small spot-shaped light source can be sufficiently diffused so that visibility can be further enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Takori, Miho Sasaki, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yuri Mitomo, Tomohiro Kaneko, Shota Suzuki, Miyoko Nagaike
  • Publication number: 20220371598
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a vehicle power supply apparatus including a processor. When a disaster by which foreign matter might be deposited on a road occurs, the processor preferentially performs power supply to a road maintenance vehicle configured to perform maintenance on the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Yuko KIMURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Hideki NAKAZONO, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220277962
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a pair of first substrate chucks each configured to hold a substrate from below while allowing a first main surface of the substrate to face upwards; a pair of second substrate chucks each configured to hold the substrate from below while allowing a second main surface of the substrate opposite to the first main surface to face upwards; a rotary table which is configured to be rotated about a rotation axis; a first processing unit equipped with a first processing tool configured to process the first main surface of the substrate held by the first substrate chuck; and a second processing unit equipped with a second processing tool configured to process the second main surface of the substrate held by the second substrate chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Munehisa KODAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220080552
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing liquid supply device capable of selectively supplying a plurality of different polishing liquids to a vessel for storing the polishing liquid used in a polishing apparatus. The polishing liquid supply device includes a plurality of ejection nozzles provided according to the plurality of different polishing liquids, a sensor that detects a position corresponding to one of the plurality of ejection nozzles at which a supplied port of the vessel is disposed, a storage device that stores information concerning the polishing liquid selected from the plurality of polishing liquids, and a processing device that performs a control to eject the polishing liquid from the ejection nozzle corresponding to the polishing liquid indicated by the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hideji HORITA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Yuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220058463
    Abstract: The machine learning device comprises a training part configured to train a machine learning model used in a vehicle; and a detecting part configured to detect replacement of a vehicle part mounted in the vehicle. The training part is configured to retrain the machine learning model using training data sets corresponding to a vehicle part after replacement when a vehicle part relating to input data of the machine learning model is replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210380092
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: determine, for each vehicle, a necessity of suppressing lowering of performance of an internal combustion engine based on vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle; determine a reservation as a first reservation when reservation information corresponding to the reservation of renting the vehicle satisfies a first condition under which suppressing of lowering of the performance is expected; and allocate the vehicle to the reservation based on the reservation information, wherein the processor is configured to allocate, in a case where the reservation is the first reservation, the vehicle satisfying a second condition indicating a high necessity of the suppression of lowering of the performance or the vehicle having a higher necessity of the suppression of lowering of the performance than the other vehicle to the reservation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Yusuke TAKASU, Keisuke NAGASAKA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kohji OGASAWARA