Patents by Inventor Toshiaki TAZUME

Toshiaki TAZUME 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: 12106256
    Abstract: A logistics system, comprising: an unmanned aerial vehicle including: a holder configured to hold a package to which a readable medium including package identification information is attached; and a reader configured to read the readable medium when the package is held by the holder; and at least one processor configured to: generate, after the readable medium is read by the reader, flight plan information on the unmanned aerial vehicle based or information read from the readable medium; and control the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the flight plan information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Lee, Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 12060225
    Abstract: A control device (500) includes a selector (550) that selects one of a first vehicle and a second vehicle as a remaining vehicle that stores a first article and a second article and that remains at a receiving location where the first article and the second article are to be received, and selects another of the first vehicle and the second vehicle as a departing vehicle that departs from the receiving location, when the second vehicle storing the second article arrives at the receiving location while the first vehicle storing the first article stays at the receiving location. Additionally, the control device (500) includes a storage controller (560) that identifies the first article or the second article stored in the selected departing vehicle as a transfer article to be transferred from the departing vehicle to the remaining vehicle, and causes the identified transfer article to be stored in the remaining vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 12062230
    Abstract: Information processing system S acquires sensing data obtained through sensing downward from the sky by an UAV 1 flying in a specific zone, and identifies flood-damaged area where flood damage has occurred in the specific zone on the basis of the acquired sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Publication number: 20240257040
    Abstract: An operation guidance corresponding to a user is output. A server (10) of a logistics management system (1) sets, based on user setting information associated with users, an output mode of an operation guidance that is output by an unmanned ground vehicle (30) that carries a package, generates a notification code for a package subject to carrying, associates the generated notification code with a user who picks up or deposits the package, sends the generated notification code to a user device used by the user, obtains an authentication code which includes the notification code and which the user has entered into the unmanned vehicle (30), specifies, based on the notification code included in the obtained authentication code, the output mode of the operation guidance corresponding to the user who has entered the authentication code, causes the unmanned vehicle (30) to output the operation guidance using the specified output mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki TAZUME, Jun TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240232784
    Abstract: A logistics management system includes a memory that stores operation record information indicating a record of each of users operating an unmanned vehicle and a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to specify, when the unmanned vehicle moves on a carrying route that includes carrying points, a user who operates the unmanned vehicle at each of the carrying points, obtain the operation record information corresponding to the specified user, and specify, based on the operation record information, an estimated operation time for each of the users to operate the unmanned vehicle and determine a carrying sequence using the estimated operation time. The carrying sequence is a sequence in which the unmanned vehicle moves between the carrying points on the carrying route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Patent number: 12033108
    Abstract: A control device (100) includes an acquirer (110) that acquires transport article information expressing a characteristic of an article to be transported, and a generator (130) that generates, on the basis of the characteristic expressed in the acquired transport article information, transport control information that causes an unmanned vehicle to transport the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Publication number: 20240212513
    Abstract: The control unit 16 of the UAV 1 detects the UAV 50 as a search target on the basis of the sensing data obtained by sensing of the sensor unit 14, and moves the UAV 1 to a position above the detected UAV 50. Then, the control unit 16 identifies a current position of the UAV 1 when the UAV 1 has moved to the position above the UAV 50, and transmits search position information indicating the identified current position as the current position of the UAV 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki TAZUME, Daiki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12017774
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an aerial vehicle body capable of flying; a winding machine provided to the aerial vehicle body and capable of winding and unwinding a linear member an end of which is connectable to a delivery target; and a fall prevention mechanism provided to the aerial vehicle body and capable of holding the delivery target disconnected from the linear member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Inuma, Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 12007788
    Abstract: An UAV 1 performs a detachment control to detach a cargo supported by a support portion 117 or connected a connecting portion 118, and thereafter, performs a load detection process of detecting a mechanical load applied to the support portion 117 or the connecting portion 118. And then An UAV 1 performs different control according to the mechanical load, with respect to a movement of the UAV 1 after the detection of the mechanical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Publication number: 20240185171
    Abstract: A control device (100) controls a delivery vehicle and includes a first determiner (120) that determines a point (i) by using each of a plurality of shipping locations as a reference and (ii) on the basis of a preparation time from when a shipping request is accepted until when shipment becomes possible at each of the plurality of shipping locations. Additionally, the control device (100) includes a controller (130) that allows the delivery vehicle to accept a shipping location of a package or a delivery destination of the package as a movement destination so as to set a state of the delivery vehicle to a state of accepting the movement destination, moves the delivery vehicle to the movement destination when the state of the delivery vehicle is the state of accepting the movement destination, and moves the delivery vehicle toward the point when the state of the delivery vehicle is a state of not accepting the movement destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20240182077
    Abstract: A delivery control system includes a determination unit that uses receiving position determining information to determine a common receiving position for a delivery address of an item of a first user and a delivery address of an item of a second user and a movement control unit that causes a delivery machine to move to the receiving position. The delivery machine is loaded with an item indicated by order information related to an order of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Patent number: 12002000
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial delivery vehicle acquires transfer position information indicating a position at time of package transfer of an unmanned ground delivery vehicle that receives a package in a case where a predetermined condition based on position information of the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle that transports a package is satisfied. A position of the unmanned ground delivery vehicle at the time of package transfer is identified by the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle. The unmanned ground delivery vehicle acquires delivery destination information of the package transported by the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11995928
    Abstract: A control device (100) controls a locker that includes a storage unit that stores an article. Additionally, the control device (100) includes a forbidder (160) that forbids unlocking of the storage unit in at least one of a case in which content associated with the article has not been watched, a case in which the content has not been listened to, or a case in which the content has neither been watched nor listened to by a user that performs an operation for unlocking the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11986114
    Abstract: A delivery system S performs authenticating process of authenticating at least any one of an UGV 1 and an article delivered by the UGV 1 in a case where the UGV 1 arrives at a delivery destination, and performs opening/closing control of a first carry-in port from which the article is carried in at the delivery destination on the basis of the authentication result of the UGV 1 or the article delivered by the UGV 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11989039
    Abstract: A control system includes at least one memory storing program code and at least one processor. The program code is configured to cause the at least one processor to estimate size of a short visibility airspace, based on a location of a first point at which an aircraft detects the short visibility airspace, a location of a second point at which the aircraft determines that the aircraft has entered the short visibility airspace, and sensing information acquired at the first point. The program code also causes the at least one processor to perform control to cause the aircraft to move to a safe airspace that is set based on the estimated size of the short visibility airspace when it is determined that flight continuation along a route passing through the short visibility airspace is impracticable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11970267
    Abstract: A control device (200) includes a ground vehicle controller (230) that causes a ground vehicle to travel at a target area, an acquirer (210) that acquires state information expressing a state of a surface of the target area while the ground vehicle travels the target area, and a determiner (240) that determines, based on the acquired state information, whether or not an aircraft is landable at the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11954633
    Abstract: The information processing device acquires load information of a load to be transported by UGV 1; acquires environmental information obtained by sensing an environment around the UGV by a sensor mounted on the UGV at a transport destination of the load; and determines a place where the load is placed by the UGV at the transport destination on the basis of the load information and the environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Patent number: 11928973
    Abstract: A flight system includes an aerial vehicle having a sensor and capable of flying unmanned. The flight system estimates a condition of dust in an area of a scheduled destination, on the basis of sensing data obtained by observing, with the sensor, the area from a flight position of the aerial vehicle. Then, the flight system controls the aerial vehicle on the basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11905032
    Abstract: Provided is an aircraft, a system, and a method whereby the visibility of the aircraft from a predetermined point can be improved. The aircraft includes at least one memory and at least one processor. Program code includes control code configured to cause the at least one processor to perform orientation change control for causing a first face to face a predetermined point, the first face being a face of the aircraft and having a predetermined color, or display control for causing an image of the predetermined color to be displayed on a second face, the second face being a display surface of a display device of the aircraft and a partial face or an entire face facing the predetermined point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11893894
    Abstract: A landing management device sets a partition, in a predetermined landing area, on the basis of information of an unmanned aerial vehicle that lands on a landing area, the partition being obtained by virtually partitioning a part of the landing area, and transmits landing control information to a control device, in order to make the unmanned aerial vehicle land on a partial area corresponding to the partition. The control device controls landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the basis of the landing control information received from the landing management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Qingnan Zhou, Toshiaki Tazume